Rose blooms fill the air with fragrance, poetic and picturesque, intoxicating.

In late spring and early summer, a patch of roses blooms in Wulongtan Park in Jinan, with several rose varieties in a riot of colors and gorgeous forms, well worth a visit.

The rose is called the queen of flowers, also known as "monthly red." It is an evergreen or semi-evergreen low shrub that blooms in all four seasons and is a common ornamental plant.

Since ancient times, the rose has been one of the flowers loved by many scholars and refined gentlemen, and many poets have enjoyed writing poems about roses. The peony is most precious only in late spring, the herbaceous peony, though abundant, only in early summer. Only this flower never tires of blooming, occupying spring in all four seasons of the year.

Through how many cold and hot seasons has the world passed, yet before my home the four seasons are spring. What in the world can compare to love, silently flourishing and withering only for you.

One branch has just faded when another blooms in beauty, yet spring itself never takes notice. Even though the peony may be called radiant, in the end its glory and decline last but a moment.

The rose must surely be a thing from heaven, flourishing and fading through the four seasons yet ever the same in color. Pitiful that it sways and falls in the west wind, yet again puts forth a few red dots on cold branches.

Lush and verdant, gathering jade-like green, the ever-spring flower buds are born in all four seasons. The rose's fragrance spans ten thousand varieties, its delicate beauty could put even the iron-petal red to shame.

The peony, peerless, is left to the spring wind; the dew-covered chrysanthemum, sparse and thin, complains in the late clumps. How can they compare to this flower's abundant glory and beauty, ever blooming in shallow and deep red through all four seasons.

Gazing at flowers, I laugh at my own dim eyes, mistaking them for a thicket of mountain thorns. Only you have fully received heaven's grace, claiming all twenty-four seasonal winds.