Lovely dainty Spanish needle <br />With your yellow flower and white, <br />Dew bedecked and softly sleeping, <br />Do you think of me to-night? <br /> <br />Shadowed by the spreading mango, <br />Nodding o'er the rippling stream, <br />Tell me, dear plant of my childhood, <br />Do you of the exile dream? <br /> <br />Do you see me by the brook's side <br />Catching crayfish 'neath the stone, <br />As you did the day you whispered: <br />Leave the harmless dears alone? <br /> <br />Do you see me in the meadow <br />Coming from the woodland spring <br />With a bamboo on my shoulder <br />And a pail slung from a string? <br /> <br />Do you see me all expectant <br />Lying in an orange grove, <br />While the swee-swees sing above me, <br />Waiting for my elf-eyed love? <br /> <br />Lovely dainty Spanish needle, <br />Source to me of sweet delight, <br />In your far-off sunny southland <br />Do you dream of me to-night?<br /><br />Claude McKay<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-spanish-needle/
