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CHILDREN'S GARDENS 
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flowers and a garden can reap the same kind 
of pleasure. Be content with your garden, 
employ every inch of it to the best advantage, 
and whatever flowers you succeed in growing 
will tenfold repay your care and tending. 
I know not which I love the most, 
Nor which the comeliest shows ; 
The timid, bashful violet, 
Or the royal-hearted rose, 
The pansy in her purple dress, 
The pink with cheek of red, 
Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs 
Like a bashful maid her head. 
For I love and prize you one and all, 
From the least low bloom of spring, 
To the lily fair, whose clothes outshine 
The raiment of a king. 
Phoebe Cary, Spring Flowers , 
