Skirting the rocks at the forest edge  
  With a running flame from ledge to ledge,  
  Or swaying deeper in shadowy glooms,  
  A smoldering fire in her dusky blooms;  
  Bronzed and molded by wind and sun,  
  Maddening, gladdening every one  
  With a gypsy beauty full and fine,—  
  A health to the crimson columbine!
Columbine; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 124.























