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My Garden

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
Rose plot,
Fringed pool,
Ferned grot
The veriest school
Of peace; and yet the fool
Contends that God is not
Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool?
Nay, but I have a sign;
‘Tis very sure God walks in mine.

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Poem My Garden - Thomas Edward Brown
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