The sullen winter nearly spent, Queen Flora to her garden went, to call the flowers from their long sleep, the year’s glad festivals to keep. Illustration originally published in Flora’s Feast : A Masque of Flowers by Walter Crane (1845-1915), 1889.

The sullen winter nearly spent, Queen Flora to her garden went, to call the flowers from their long sleep, the year’s glad festivals to keep.

Illustration originally published in Flora’s Feast : A Masque of Flowers by Walter Crane (1845-1915), 1889.

Tags: 1880s illustrations