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BUCOLIC COMEDY: COUNTRY COUSIN: VARIATION 2 by EDITH SITWELL

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First Line: IN SUMMER WHEN THE ROSE-BUSHES
Last Line: THE GARDENER TIES IN CHILDISH POSIES.
Subject(s): COUNTRY LIFE;

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IN summer when the rose-bushes
Have names like all the sweetest hushes
In a bird's song, -- Susan, Hannah,
Martha, Harriet, and Rosannah,
My coral neck
And my little song
Are very extra
And very Susie;
A little kiss like a gold bee stings
My childish life so sweet and rosy . . .
Like country clouds of clouted cream
The round and flaxen blond leaves seem,
And dew in trills
And dew in pearls
Falls from every gardener's posy;
Marguerites, roses,
A flaxen lily,
Water-chilly,
Buttercups where the dew reposes
In fact each flower young and silly,
The gardener ties in childish posies.



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