Lilacs Upper Canyon Road Santa Fe May 2012

WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d—and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

O ever-returning spring! trinity sure to me you bring;
Lilac blooming perennial, and drooping star in the west,
And thought of him I love.

(When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd, Walt Whitman, 1819-1892)