A keresés eredménye

The tulip

Here I am, the tulip, a flower from Holland,
and such is my beauty that, for a single seed,
as long as I stand tall and straight and pure-hued,
the stingy Fleming is willing to trade diamonds.
 
My figure is feudal. Like a Yoland of old
clad in her pleated skirt, long and ample garment,
I wear fine heraldry painted on my vestment,
crimson laced with silver, violet striped with gold.
 
The divine gardener spun of his own making
the rays of sun itself and the purple of kings,
the softest gossamer a tailor would dream up.
 
Among all the flowers, none has my effulgence,
yet nature would, alas, not pour any fragrance
into my fine chalice, thin as a china cup.
 
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