Flower Meeting
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THE FLOWER MEETING

Characters:

QUEEN-ROSE

SNOWDROP

VIOLET

BUTTERCUP

BLUEBELL

CORN-FLOWER

SUNFLOWER

  In a Queen-Rose’s palace all the flowers gathered to decide their turn to come on the earth. The Queen-Rose is sitting on her throne at one side. The flowers come up to her one by one and present themselves.

SNOWDROP: I am a nice little flower in a white dress. I have no smell.

QUEEN-ROSE: Your name will be Snowdrop. You will be the first flower in spring. People will            

                           see you on the places where the snow becomes water in the sun. They will like

                           you very much.

SNOWDROP: In the heart of a seed,

                         Buried deep, so deep!

                         A little snowdrop

                         Lay fast asleep!

                         “Wake!” said the sunshine,

                         “And creep to the light!”

                         “Wake!” said the voice

                         Of the raindrops bright.

                         The little snowdrop heard,

                         And it rose to see

                         What the wonderful world

                          Outside might be.

  The Snowdrop bows and stands at one side of the throne.

VIOLET: I am a spring flower, too. My dress is violet. I am very nice, as you see.

QUEEN-ROSE: Your name is Violet. You will come after the Snowdrop, a little later, when

                            there is no snow in the fields, the days are longer and it is warmer.

 VIOLET: Sweet and fresh are violets

                 On every hill and dell

                 Oh, how beautiful they are,

                 How sweetly do they smell.

The Violet bows and stands at the other side of the throne.

BUTTERCUP: I am a little flower. I am dressed in a nice yellow dress. I like the sun, I like when

                          it’s warm.

QUEEN-ROSE: Then you must come in summer, when it is warm and the sun shines all day

                           long. Your name will be Buttercup.

BUTTERCUP: Buttercups here, buttercups there,

                          Buttercups growing everywhere.

                          Across the meadows and up the hill,

                          Their golden loveliness they spill.

  It bows to the Queen and stands next to the Snowdrop.

BLUEBELL:  I am blue like the sky, and my dress is like a bell. I like the sun too.

QUEEN-ROSE: Oh, I know, your name will be Bluebell. People will see you in the grass. You

                      will make the fields beautiful.

BLUEBELL:  Blue as the sky

                       In summer it grows

                       Bluebel’s a flower

                      That everyone knows.

  It bows and stands next to the Violet

CORN-FLOWER: My colour is blue, too. I make the fields beautiful, but I make the harvest not

                               very rich.

QUEEN-ROSE: Your name, my beautiful one, will be Cornflower. People will see you in the

                           fields all the summer.

CORN-FLOWER: A lot of spring flowers.

                               And sunny warm weather,

                               And singing and playing –

                               All come together.

  The Corn-flower bows and steps aside.

SUNFLOWER: Look at me, please. I am like the golden sun.

QUEEN-ROSE: Yes, you look like the sun, so your name will be Sunflower. People will see you

                           in the country in August, and you will look at the sun every day.

SUNFLOWER: In my little garden with a lovely view,

                          Sunflowers are smiling, one and two.

 The sunflower bows and goes to one side of the throne.

QUEEN-ROSE (stands up and goes to the middle of the room): Well, my dear flowers. Now

                           you know that you are spring and summer flowers. You are not garden flowers.

                          People can see most of you only in the fields. Now let us dance. Spring and

                          summer will come her soon, and you must be ready to come together with them:

                          first the Snowdrop, then the Violet, after them the Buttercup and the Bluebell,

                          and then the Corn-flower and the Sunflower.

 All the flowers make a ring.

BUTTERCUP (coming into the middle of it, recites):

                        Buttercups, buttercups,

                        Oh, the nicest flowers,

                        Coming in the springtime

                        To tell of sunny hours.

                        When the trees are leafless,

                        When the fields are bare,

                         Buttercups, buttercups,

                         Spring up here and there.