Quote of the Day (Robert Burns, on ‘Youthfu' May Its Bloom Renew'd’)

“O were my love yon Lilac fair,
Wi' purple blossoms to the Spring,
And I, a bird to shelter there,
When wearied on my little wing!
How I wad mourn when it was torn
By Autumn wild, and Winter rude!
But I wad sing on wanton wing,
When youthfu' May its bloom renew'd.”—Scottish Romantic poet Robert Burns (1759-1796), “O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair” (1793), in The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (2000)
 
(I came upon this poem on an episode of Parks and Recreation, in which Ron Swanson—sitting on a gloriously green hillside in Scotland—reads this poem and is unexpectedly moved to tears.)