Classic Poem

Yet not quite unadorn'd, their house of prayer:
The fragrant offspring of the genial morn
They duly brought; and fondly offer'd there
The bud that trembles ere the rose is born,
The blue clematis and the jasmine pale,
The scarlet woodbine waving in the gale,
The rhododendron, and the snowy thorn,
The rich magnolia, with its foliage fair,
High-priestess of the flowers, whose censer fills the air.