The winter has deflowered garden and heath; br Nought lives; and on the rock's unchanging gray, br Where the Atlantic's endless billows play, br The last pistil to petal clings in death, br br And yet, these subtile scents the sea breeze hath br Blown me I know not - warm effluvia they br That bid my heart to mad delight give way; br Whence comes this strangely odoriferous breath? br br Ah! now it is revealed: - 'Tis from the west br Three thousand leagues, where the Antilles rest, br Beneath the occidental star, in swoon; br br And on this Cymric wave-lashed reef today br I've breathed the air perfumed by flower blown br Of old in garden of America.