What a thing a garden is 
For sweet dreams and quietness! 
Roses and lilies, 
Narcissus, daffodillies, 
Irises and phlox and stocks, \ * 
And the sultan hollyhocks, "> \ 
Love-lies-bleeding—love-in-a-mist- ^ ^ 
Pansies tawny and amethyst. ^ 
What a thing a garden is 
For medicinal heartsease! 
Oh, from the dark earth to hale 
Tulips and the primrose pale, 
Hyacinths, all that run before 
The full summer’s golden store; 
For to create, for to bid live, 
These so sweet, so fugitive! 
What a thing a garden is 
To bid grow, to increase! 
Katharine Tynan 
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