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GARDENING SONG, by                    
First Line: When I am in my garden
Last Line: I print it on the sod.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening


WHEN I am in my garden
I am a monk of old
Illuminating missals
With blue and green and gold.
In cunning burnish'd letters
He wrote the Name of God,
In daffodils and tulips
I print it on the sod.

When I am in my garden
I am of Aaron's race,
A Levite, a precentor
Who, in a holy place,
For God's sake and for music's
At Matins, Nones, and Prime,
Sets every psalm and anthem
To fitting tune and time.

When I am in my garden
I am the bridegroom's friend,
With charge of all the jewels
That he delights to send;
The turquoise myosotis,
Narcissus, ruby-eyed,
Imperial crowns of amber—
I bear them to the bride.

When I am in my garden
My heart's a truant lark,
My humbler limbs bend earthward,
I sing and serve till dark;
And when God takes the candle
I rise from off my knee
And hear the odours breathing
The Name I cannot see.

When I am in my garden
I am a monk of old,
Illuminating missals
With blue and green and gold.
In cunning burnish'd letters
He wrote the Name of God,
In basil sweet and mignonette
I print it on the sod.





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