The following text is from Ezra Pound’s 1909 poem “Hymn III,” based on the work of Marcantonio Flaminio.

As a fragile and lovely flower unfolds its gleaming
 foliage on the breast of the fostering earth, if
 the dew and the rain draw it forth;
So doth my tender mind flourish, if it be fed with the
 sweet dew of the fostering spirit,
Lacking this, it beginneth straightway to languish,
 even as a floweret born upon dry earth, if the
 dew and the rain tend it not.