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First Line: Three rows of peas and three of beans
Last Line: Who makes a garden makes a home.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening


Three rows of peas and three of beans,
Four hills, perhaps, of corn,
And maybe you don't think it means
So much -- but every morn
They hurry out to see if night
Has brought another seed to light.

This row of radishes, the row
Of berry bushes, too,
Have something more to make them grow
Than all your acres do.
They all have rain, and sun above,
But these have more, for these have love.

The little gardens near the street,
Amid the city din,
Have always seemed to me the sweet,
The best to labor in,
When every tendril, every vine,
Around our happy hearts entwine.

For where love plants, there love will reap,
And reap a thousandfold;
And so a little garden keep
And watch its joy unfold.
With love to 'tend, and turn the loam,
Who makes a garden makes a home.





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