'Neath the azure crystal bell <br />Of my listless melancholy <br />All my formless sorrows slowly <br />Sink to rest, and all is well; <br /> <br />Symbols all, the plants entwine: <br />Water lilies, flowers of pleasure, <br />Palms desirous, slow with leisure, <br />Frigid mosses, pliant vine. <br /> <br />'Mid them all a lily only, <br />Pale and fragile and unbending, <br />Imperceptibly ascending <br />In that place of leafage lonely <br /> <br />Like a moon the prisoned air <br />Fills with glimmering light wherethro' <br />Rises to the crystal blue, <br />White and mystical, its prayer.<br /><br />Maurice Polydore-Marie-Bernard Maeterlinck<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-heart-s-foliage/
