O For a garden of the olden time
Where none but long-familiar flowers grow,
Where pebbled paths go winding to and fro,
And honeysuckles over arbors climb!
There would I have sweet mignonette and thyme,
With hollyhocks and dahlias all arow,
The hyacinth inscribed with words of woe,
The small blue-bell that beats a dainty chime
For elfin ears; and daffodillies, too,
The sleepy poppy, and the marigold,
The peony with petals manifold,
And ragged-robins, pink and white and blue.
All these and more I’d have, and back of all
A thousand roses on a mossy wall!
(John Russell Hayes)
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