Streówian Brúcan

By Krikmöklet Egelanaard

streówian—Old English, strewn; etymology of strawberry: strewn berry; strewn by roots

brúcan—Old English, to enjoy; endure

When flax blooms lilt in faerie blue,

Let us fipple still our tune

Of hare through tinkling barley;

Of sweet clovered hummocks

Where Carpathian berries

In their corundum veins

Asked us not to hurry. For

The promise made of frore winds

That doom the tapering light

Will duly keep

And, with the rose and lily,

We will surely sleep

Studies of Wild Strawberries, Alexander Marshal (c. 1620-82) (artist), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons