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A Garden Song.

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(To W. E. H.)     Here, in this sequestered close     Bloom the hyacinth and rose;     Here beside the modest stock     Flaunts the flaring hollyhock;     Here, without a pang, one sees     Ranks, conditions, and degrees.     All the seasons run their race     In this quiet resting place;     Peach, and apricot, and fig     Here will ripen, and grow big;     Here is store and overplus,--     More had not Alcinos!     Here, in alleys cool and green,     Far ahead the thrush is seen;     Here along the southern wall     Keeps the bee his festival;     All is quiet else--afar     Sounds of toil and turmoil are.     Here be shadows large and long;     Here be spaces meet for song;     Grant, O garden-god, that I,     Now that none profane is nigh,--     Now that mood and moment please,     Find the fair Pierides!

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