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SPRING PLANTING-TIME
What will you sow, little children, what will you sow?
In your garden you wish that sweet flowers would blossom and grow?
Then be careful to choose from the myriads of wonderful seeds
The caskets that lock up delight, and beware of the weeds!
In your garden you wish that sweet flowers would blossom and grow?
Then be careful to choose from the myriads of wonderful seeds
The caskets that lock up delight, and beware of the weeds!
If you sow nettles, alas for the crop you will reap!
Stings and poison and pain, bitter tears for your eyes to weep.
If you plant lilies and roses and pinks and sweet peas
What beauty will charm you, what perfumes on every breeze!
Stings and poison and pain, bitter tears for your eyes to weep.
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What beauty will charm you, what perfumes on every breeze!
Thus will it be, little folk, in the garden of life;
Sow seeds of ill-nature, you'll reap only sorrow and strife;
But pleasant, kind words, gentle deeds, happy thoughts if you sow,
What roses and lilies of love will spring round you and grow!
Sow seeds of ill-nature, you'll reap only sorrow and strife;
But pleasant, kind words, gentle deeds, happy thoughts if you sow,
What roses and lilies of love will spring round you and grow!
Smiles will respond to yours, brighter than marigolds are,
And sweeter than fragrance of any sweet flower, by far;
From the blossoms of beautiful deeds will a blessing arise,
And a welcome at sight of you kindle in every one's eyes.
And sweeter than fragrance of any sweet flower, by far;
From the blossoms of beautiful deeds will a blessing arise,
And a welcome at sight of you kindle in every one's eyes.
Then what will you sow, my dear children, what will you sow?
Seeds of kindness, of sweetness, of patience, drop softly, and lo!
Love shall blossom around you in joy and in beauty, and make
A garden of Paradise here upon earth for your sake.
Seeds of kindness, of sweetness, of patience, drop softly, and lo!
Love shall blossom around you in joy and in beauty, and make
A garden of Paradise here upon earth for your sake.
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