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First Line: What wonder that I should be dreaming
Last Line: Of you in the garden to-day.
Subject(s): Tennis


WHAT wonder that I should be dreaming
Out here in the garden to-day ?
The light through the leaves is streaming, --
Paulina cries, "Play !"

The birds to each other are calling,
The freshly-cut grasses smell sweet ;
To Teddy's dismay, comes falling
The ball at my feet.

"Your stroke should be over, not under !"
"But that's such a difficult way !"
The place is a springtide wonder
Of lilac and may ;

Of lilac, and may, and laburnum,
Of blossom, -- We'er losing the set !
"Those volleys of Jenny's, -- return them ;
"Stand close to the net ! "

You are so fond of the Maytime,
My friend, far away ;
Small wonder that I should be dreaming
Of you in the garden to-day.







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