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THE HOUSE OF GREAAT CONTENT, by                    
First Line: There is a certain gracious garth I know
Last Line: A house of great content.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Wellesley College


THERE is a certain gracious garth I know,
Unwrought by human hand,
Most like a faery garden in a book
Whereon no mortal man may ever look, --
This lovely croft of land.

Not far away the sober highway creeps,
My pleasaunce heeding not;
Its calm of mountain curves in pure embrace,
Blue-windowed into realms of heavenly space
About the joyful spot.

A fair green meadow in a river bend
By whispering willows crowned;
A sweep of hillside like a gallant wall,
And lone upon its ledge a pine-tree tall
Guard this enchanted ground.

It hath a spring, bordered divinely blue
With amulet of flowers,
A tender isle that fringed with elder is,
Where fireflies weave their silent symphonies,
Spangling the twilight hours.

So cunningly within the hills 'tis set
In happy youth apart
It seems beyond the ken of toil and time,
Lisping the little river's intimate rhyme
Deep in its lyric heart.

Beloved, let the stranger world go by
In futile wonderment
While, some rich day, there builds for you and me
Between the willows and the plumed tree
A House of Great Content.





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