THE POOR MAN’S FLOWERS. 105 
THE POOR MAN’S FLOWERS. 
Around the rich man’s trelliss’d bower 
Gay, costly creepers run : 
The poor man has his scarlet-beans 
To screen him from the sun. 
And there before the little bench 
O’ershadovv’d by the bower, 
Grow southernwood and lemon-thyme. 
Sweet-pea and gillyflower ; 
And pinks and clove-carnations, 
Rich-scented, side by side ; 
And at each end a holly-hock. 
With an edge of London-pride. 
And here, on Sabbath-evenings, 
Until the stars are out, 
With a little one in either hand 
He walketh all about. 
For though his garden-plot is small, 
Him doth it satisfy ; 
For there’s no inch of all his ground 
That does not fill his eye. 
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