<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420500" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Garden</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O painter of the fruits and flowers,<br>We own wise design,<br>Where these human hands of ours<br>May share work of Thine!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Apart from Thee we plant in vain<br>The root and sow the seed;<br>Thy early and Thy later rain,<br>Thy sun and dew we need.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our toil is sweet with thankfulness,<br>Our burden is our boon;<br>The curse of Earth's gray morning is<br>The blessing of its noon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why search the wide world everywhere<br>For Eden's unknown ground?<br>That garden of the primal pair<br>May nevermore be found.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, blest by Thee, our patient toil<br>May right the ancient wrong,<br>And give to every clime and soil<br>The beauty lost so long.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our homestead flowers and fruited trees<br>May Eden's orchard shame;<br>We taste the tempting sweets of these<br>Like Eve, without her blame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, North and South and East and West,<br>The pride of every zone,<br>The fairest, rarest, and the best<br>May all be made our own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Its earliest shrines the young world sought<br>In hill-groves and in bowers,<br>The fittest offerings thither brought<br>Were Thy own fruits and flowers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And still with reverent hands we cull<br>Thy gifts each year renewed;<br>The good is always beautiful,<br>The beautiful is good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420500" data-title="Garden de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="O painter of the fruits and flowers, We own wise design, Where these human hands of ours May share work of Thine! Apart from Thee we plant in vain The root and sow the seed; Thy early and Thy later rain, Thy sun and dew we need. Our toil is swee..."></div> </div> </div>

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