Poems By William Bell Scott. Ballads, Studies from Nature, Sonnets, etc. Illustrated by Seventeen Etchings by the Author and L. Alma Tadema |
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VI.THE GARDEN.
The old house garden grows old-fashioned flowers,Sheltered by hedges of the close yew-tree,
Through which, as Chaucer says, no wight may see;
The sunflowers rise aloft like beacon towers,
Their large discs fringed with flames; and corner bowers
There are of mountain-ash, and the wild rose
Short-lived, blue star-flowers that at evening close
Spring there; sweet herbs and marigolds in showers;
Gilly-flowers too, dark crimson and nigh white;
Pied poppies, and the striped grass, differing still
In each long leaf, though children ever will
Believe in finding two shall match aright.
The paths are edged with box grown broad and high,
At evening sheltering moths of various dye.
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