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MY father left a park to me	A
But it is wild and barren	B
A garden too with scarce a tree	A
And waster than a warren	B
Yet say the neighbours when they call	C
It is not bad but good land	D
And in it is the germ of all	C
That grows within the woodland	D
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O had I lived when song was great	E
In days of old Amphion	B
And ta'en my fiddle to the gate	E
Nor cared for seed or scion	B
And had I lived when song was great	E
And legs of trees were limber	F
And ta'en my fiddle to the gate	E
And fiddled in the timber	F
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'Tis said he had a tuneful tongue	G
Such happy intonation	B
Wherever he sat down and sung	G
He left a small plantation	B
Wherever in a lonely grove	H
He set up his forlorn pipes	I
The gouty oak began to move	J
And flounder into hornpipes	I
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The mountain stirr'd its bushy crown	B
And as tradition teaches	I
Young ashes pirouetted down	B
Coquetting with young beeches	I
And briony vine and ivy wreath	K
Ran forward to his rhyming	L
And from the valleys underneath	K
Came little copses climbing	L
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The linden broke her ranks and rent	M
The woodbine wreaths that bind her	F
And down the middle buzz she went	M
With all her bees behind her	F
The poplars in long order due	N
With cypress promenaded	N
The shock head willows two and two	N
By rivers gallopaded	N
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Came wet shod alder from the wave	O
Came yews a dismal coterie	A
Each pluck'd his one foot from the grave	O
Poussetting with a sloe tree	A
Old elms came breaking from the vine	B
The vine stream'd out to follow	P
And sweating rosin plump'd the pine	B
From many a cloudy hollow	P
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And wasn't it a sight to see	A
When ere his song was ended	N
Like some great landslip tree by tree	A
The country side descended	N
And shepherds from the mountain eaves	I
Look'd down half pleased half frighten'd	N
As dash'd about the drunken leaves	I
The random sunshine lighten'd	N
	-
Oh nature first was fresh to men	B
And wanton without measure	F
So youthful and so flexile then	B
You moved her at your pleasure	F
Twang out my fiddle shake the twigs'	I
And make her dance attendance	I
Blow flute and stir the stiff set sprigs	I
And scirrhous roots and tendons	I
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'Tis vain in such a brassy age	Q
I could not move a thistle	R
The very sparrows in the hedge	S
Scarce answer to my whistle	R
'Or at the most when three parts sick	T
With strumming and with scraping	L
A jackass heehaws from the rick	T
The passive oxen gaping	L
	-
But what is that I hear a sound	N
Like sleepy counsel pleading	L
O Lord 'tis in my neighbour's ground	N
The modern Muses reading	L
They read Botanic Treatises	I
And Works on Gardening thro' there	U
And Methods of transplanting trees	I
To look as if they grew there	U
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The wither'd Misses how they prose	I
O'er books of travell'd seamen	B
And show you slips of all that grows	I
From England to Van Diemen	B
They read in arbours clipt and cut	N
And alleys faded places	I
By squares of tropic summer shut	N
And warm'd in crystal cases	I
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But these tho' fed with careful dirt	N
Are neither green nor sappy	V
Half conscious of the garden squirt	N
The spindlings look unhappy	V
Better to me the meanest weed	N
That blows upon its mountain	B
The vilest herb that runs to seed	N
Beside its native fountain	B
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And I must work thro' months of toil	W
And years of cultivation	B
Upon my proper patch of soil	W
To grow my own plantation	B
I'll take the showers as they fall	C
I will not vex my bosom	X
Enough if at the end of all	C
A little garden blossom	X
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Alfred Lord Tennyson

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