The camellias bloom in Winter when the skies are cold and gray <br />When the sun shines at it's weakest and the Spring seems far away <br />Each tree an individual by the shade of flowers they bear <br />An avenue of camellias of one shade of flowers more often than not rare. <br /> <br />In shades of pink and creams and reds the colours one might name <br />Each is an individual for no two look the same <br />The beautiful camellias resplendent in their flowers <br />They bloom in lawn and garden on Winter's coldest hours. <br /> <br />In late fall in Victoria in the Southern Hemisphere <br />The flower buds on camellia tell Winter days are near <br />And before the wattles come to bloom towards the end of July <br />The flowers on the camellia tree lose their petals and die. <br /> <br />The beautiful camellias bloom in the cold winter showers <br />And long before the southern spring they will have lost their flowers <br />And on June's coldest and wettest day great beauty I can see <br />A mass of pink flowers blooming on the green camellia tree.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-beautiful-camellias/
