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Eugene Field - My GardenEugene Field - My Garden
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My garden aboundeth in pleasant nooks   And fragrance is over it all; For sweet is the smell of my old, old books   In their places against the wall. Here is a folio that`s grim with age   And yellow and green with mould; There`s the breath of the sea on every page   And the hint of a stanch ship`s hold. And here is a treasure from France la belle   Exhaleth a faint perfume Of wedded lily and asphodel   In a garden of song abloom. And this wee little book of Puritan mien   And rude, conspicuous print Hath the Yankee flavor of wintergreen,   Or, may be, of peppermint. In Walton the brooks a-babbling tell   Where the cheery daisy grows, And where in meadow or woodland dwell   The buttercup and the rose. But best beloved of books, I ween,   Are those which one perceives Are hallowed by ashes dropped between   The yellow, well-thumbed leaves. For it`s here a laugh and it`s there a tear,   Till the treasured book is read; And the ashes betwixt the pages here   Tell us of one long dead. But the gracious presence reappears   As we read the book again, And the fragrance of precious, distant years   Filleth the hearts of men. Come, pluck with me in my garden nooks   The posies that bloom for all; Oh, sweet is the smell of my old, old books   In their places against the wall!
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