Девы, будучи больны
И от хвори зелены,
Превратились в первоцветы,
И они того же цвета.
Robert Herrick
167. How Primroses came green
Virgins, time-past, known were these,
Troubled with green-sicknesses,
Turned to flowers: still the hue,
Sickly girls, they bear of you.