 Black-Eyed Susan is an old English poem about a girl in search of her true love who is about to set sail on a long ocean voyage. Tell me, sailors, tell me true, she asks. Does my sweet William sail with you? Colonists carried the legend to America where they saw the romance dramatized in nature, and we still see it played out each year when Black-Eyed Susan and Sweet William come into bloom. That's the Old Farmers' Almanac Radio Report. Learn more at almanac.com.