<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428700" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Garden</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know a garden like a child,<br>Clean and new-washed and reconciled.<br>It grows its own sweet way, yet still<br>Has guidance of some tender will<br>That clips, confines, its wilder mood<br>And makes it happy, being good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Around the lordly mountains stand,<br>For this is an enchanted land,<br>As though their splendours stood to grace<br>This little lovely garden place,<br>Looking with wise and keeping eyes<br>Upon the garden sanctities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Box borders edge each little bed,<br>Paths narrow for a child to tread<br>Divide the kitchen garden, dear<br>And sweet with musk and lavender,<br>And water-mints and beans in bloom.<br>Be sure the honeybee's at home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How should I tell in a sweet list<br>Of beauties, rose and amethyst;<br>The little water-garden cool<br>On sultry days, and beautiful<br>The wall-garden, the shade, the sun,<br>Since they are lovely, every one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hot honey of the pines is sweet,<br>And when the day's at three o'clock heat<br>A winding walk will you invite<br>To a new garden out of sight.<br>And a green seat is set so near<br>The sluggish, stealing backwater.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Spirit of the garden plays<br>At hide-and-seek an hundred ways<br>And when you've captured her, she will<br>Elude you, calling backward still,<br>A silver echo -- a sweet child,<br>Demure and lovesome, gay and wild.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Tynan">Katharine Tynan</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=428700" data-title="The Garden de Katharine Tynan" data-description="I know a garden like a child, Clean and new-washed and reconciled. It grows its own sweet way, yet still Has guidance of some tender will That clips, confines, its wilder mood And makes it happy, being good. Around the lordly mountains stand, For..."></div> </div> </div>

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