The First Flowers

Beside the brook

Toward the willows,

During these days

So many yellow flowers have opened

Their eyes into gold.

I have long since lost my innocence, yet a memory

Touches my depth, the golden hours of morning, and gazes

Brilliantly upon me out of the eyes of flowers.

I was going to pick flowers;

Now I leave them all standing

And walk home, an old man.