4532063Poems — A FindAntoinette Quinby Scudder
A FIND
FOR DOROTHEA

To-day I found a dainty bag
Beside my garden-bed
Of yellow cowslip petals sewn
With finest spider-thread.

I opened it, and there within—
Of this say not a word—
A fan of smallest size and made
Of plumes of humming-bird.

Claspt with a twinkling diamond
A smelling-bottle too
Carved from a single peridot
To hold one drop of dew.

A handkerchief of cobweb lace
And in one corner set
The letter "T" in golden thread,
Above, a coronet.

And think you not that she who lost
Such treasures must have been
Someone of highest rank—perhaps,
Titania the queen?

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