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Old Time Gardens 



The Beauty of Winter Lilacs. 



greet the plants like old friends, they would note 

 how fine grew the Rosemary this year, how sweet 

 were the Lady's-smocks, how fair the Gillyflowers. 

 And Gerarde and Parkinson would ponder, too, 

 over all the herbs and simples of their own Physick 

 Gardens, and compare notes. Above all I seemed 

 to see, walking soberly by my side, breathing in with' 

 delight the varied scents of leaf and blossom, that 

 lover and writer of flowers and gardens, Lord 



