CARL V ON Linn fell in the leashes
Of a female hind:
Nature is a fight for Species,
Not for morals nor for mind;
" Lo! the lilies, " spoke the teacher,
" Looking not above,
How their clothes outshine the preacher,
Dyed in purpling love! "
Through the air, a blood-drop fallen,
Speeds the red bird free,
Carrying the golden pollen
To the female tree;
So the Swede, in passion richest,
Straight at Nature aims;
He who flushed the Magdalena
Fetched the flowers, Names.