"I would i had some flowers o' the spring that might become your time of day... daffodils,that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty; violets dim,but sweeter than the lids of juno's eyes...o, these i lack,to make you garlands of, and my sweet friend,to strew him o'er and o'er!

~william shakespeare, the winter's tale [iv, 4, perdita]