Blue Squills lyrics

How many million Aprils came
       &nbsp Before I ever knew
How white a cherry bough could be,
       &nbsp A bed of squills, how blue!

And many a dancing April
       &nbsp When life is done with me,
Will lift the blue flame of the flower
       &nbsp And the white flame of the tree.

Oh burn me with your beauty, then,
       &nbsp Oh hurt me, tree and flower,
Lest in the end death try to take
       &nbsp Even this glistening hour.

O shaken flowers, O shimmering trees,
       &nbsp O sunlit white and blue,
Wound me, that I, through endless sleep,
       &nbsp May bear the scar of you.