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OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 24. RESTORATION by ARTHUR W. UPSON

First Line: TO ONE TIRED HEART I SAID: IF IT BE TRUE
Last Line: THAT ONCE IN MANY A LABYRINTH WAS YOUR CLEW.
Subject(s): GARDENS & GARDENING; OXFORD, ENGLAND;
To one tired heart I said: If it be true
That, in the sad much-winding of your ways,
Your thread is broken out of other days,
And you know not what joy is lost to you,
I pray you, turn aside awhile and through
This quiet garden think on some old place
Dear to the child you were, and that loved face
That once in many a labyrinth was your clew.



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