When The Sunflower Bloom

Sunflowers growing by my back yard shed and in the alley

I've been off on a journey; I jes' got home today; 
I traveled east, and' north, and south, an' every other 
        way; 
I seen a heap of country, an' cities on the boom, 
But I want to be in Kansas when the 
              Sun- 
                    Flowers 
                          Bloom

You may talk about yer lilies, yer vi'lets and yer 
        roses, 
Yer asters, an yer jassymins, an' all the other 
        posies; 
I'll allow they all air beauties an' full er sweet 
        perfume, 
But there's none of them a patchin' to the 
              Sun- 
                    Flowers 
                          Bloom 

-Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937)