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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 
