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The Garden 
Vol. XXXIII, No. 4 MAGAZINE 
LffWARV 
NEW YORK 
botamc *l 
June , 1921 
‘•PALE WATER, GREEN ALONG ITS MARGE 
WHERE DIPPING WILLOWS HAVE DROPPED THEIR IMAGE 
AND FEATHERED FERNS UNCURL SLIM FINGER-TIPS, 
SET ABOUT BY GLIMMERING IRIS BUDS 
AND PROUDLY LIFTED BLOOMS 
OF PURPLE, PRIMROSE, AND TAWNIEST GOLD.” 
Anter Pindar 
The Iris is here perfectly at home 
and its gracious loveliness in such a 
setting sharpens the spectator’s wish 
that it might be more often so 
found growing unrestrainedly 
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