Only the cat, padding between the roses,
Shakes a branch and breaks the chequered pattern
As water is broken by the falling of a leaf.
Then you come,
And you are quiet like the garden,
And white like the alyssum flowers,
And beautiful as the silent sparks of the fireflies.
- from The Garden by Moonlight by Amy Lowell https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51735/the-garden-by-moonlight
