Parterre Quotes

Call us not weeds, we are flowers of the Sea, For lovely and bright and gay tinted are we, And quite independent of sun's fire or showers- Then call us not weeds! We are ocean's bright flowers, Not nursed like the plants of a summer parterre, Where gales are but sighs of an evening air, Our exquisite, fragile and delicate forms Are nursed by the Ocean and rocked by the Storms. (Petar Beron)