COLD COMFORT GARDEN

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29246, 2 July 1960, Page 12

COLD COMFORT GARDEN

IB» WUIM WHAMI October a number ol rosebuds were placed in a deep-freeze “ nlt d,y * lhe bu<,s were taken out. They have now burst into full bloom and their scent has been preserved . . . fil T n ls now nesotiating with United States industrialists for a licence to preserve roses and other flowers for long periods in this way. —News item. With apologies for trampling on other men's flower-beds Deep-freeze your Rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: The Bloom that’s put on Ice today. Tomorrow won’t be dying. Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so fast. There! Let us pop you in the Frig. And see how long you'll last... We have short Time to stay, as you. It bothers us, this Brevity. Could We but be deep-frozen too, We’d equal YOUR Longevity. Oh, myLove’s like a red, red Rose _,, That’s fresh from the Deep Freeze! Cold and hard as a T-bone Steak, Or a Packet of Garden Peas. •• • • ~ I sent thee late a rosy Wreath, Fresh cut, ana frozen deep. Thus giving it a Hope that there It would not fade, but keep. But thou thereon didst hotly breathe And THAWED the fragile Posy: Since when, its Future's brief. I’ll swear, • And Anything but rosy. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden Daffodils. Ah! What a Price Td get for These, Had I but Room in my Deep Freeze! Odours, when sweet violets sicken. Live within the sense they quicken (Shelley says, and so they may) Modem Violets don’t decay And. as well as lasting longer, Frozen Violets smell much stronger.