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I mind me in the days departed	A
How often underneath the sun	B
With childish bounds I used to run	B
To a garden long deserted	C
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The beds and walks were vanish'd quite	D
And wheresoe'er had struck the spade	E
The greenest grasses Nature laid	E
To sanctify her right	D
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I call'd the place my wilderness	F
For no one enter'd there but I	G
The sheep look'd in the grass to espy	H
And pass'd it ne'ertheless	F
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The trees were interwoven wild	I
And spread their boughs enough about	J
To keep both sheep and shepherd out	J
But not a happy child	I
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Adventurous joy it was for me	H
I crept beneath the boughs and found	K
A circle smooth of mossy ground	K
Beneath a poplar tree	H
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Old garden rose trees hedged it in	L
Bedropt with roses waxen white	D
Well satisfied with dew and light	D
And careless to be seen	M
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Long years ago it might befall	N
When all the garden flowers were trim	O
The grave old gardener prided him	O
On these the most of all	N
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Some Lady stately overmuch	P
Here moving with a silken noise	F
Has blush'd beside them at the voice	F
That liken'd her to such	P
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Or these to make a diadem	Q
She often may have pluck'd and twined	R
Half smiling as it came to mind	R
That few would look at them	Q
	-
O little thought that Lady proud	S
A child would watch her fair white rose	F
When buried lay her whiter brows	F
And silk was changed for shroud	S
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Nor thought that gardener full of scorns	F
For men unlearn'd and simple phrase	F
A child would bring it all its praise	F
By creeping through the thorns	F
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To me upon my low moss seat	T
Though never a dream the roses sent	U
Of science or love's compliment	U
I ween they smelt as sweet	T
	-
It did not move my grief to see	H
The trace of human step departed	A
Because the garden was deserted	C
The blither place for me	H
	-
Friends blame me not a narrow ken	V
Hath childhood 'twixt the sun and sward	W
We draw the moral afterward	X
We feel the gladness then	V
	-
And gladdest hours for me did glide	Y
In silence at the rose tree wall	N
A thrush made gladness musical	Z
Upon the other side	Y
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Nor he nor I did e'er incline	A2
To peck or pluck the blossoms white	D
How should I know but that they might	D
Lead lives as glad as mine	A2
	-
To make my hermit home complete	T
I brought clear water from the spring	B2
Praised in its own low murmuring	B2
And cresses glossy wet	C2
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And so I thought my likeness grew	D2
Without the melancholy tale	E2
To 'gentle hermit of the dale '	-
And Angelina too	D2
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For oft I read within my nook	F2
Such minstrel stories till the breeze	F
Made sounds poetic in the trees	F
And then I shut the book	F2
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If I shut this wherein I write	D
I hear no more the wind athwart	G2
Those trees nor feel that childish heart	H2
Delighting in delight	D
	-
My childhood from my life is parted	A
My footstep from the moss which drew	D2
Its fairy circle round anew	D2
The garden is deserted	C
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Another thrush may there rehearse	F
The madrigals which sweetest are	I2
No more for me myself afar	I2
Do sing a sadder verse	F
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Ah me ah me when erst I lay	J2
In that child's nest so greenly wrought	K2
I laugh'd unto myself and thought	K2
'The time will pass away '	-
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And still I laugh'd and did not fear	L2
But that whene'er was pass'd away	J2
The childish time some happier play	J2
My womanhood would cheer	L2
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I knew the time would pass away	J2
And yet beside the rose tree wall	N
Dear God how seldom if at all	N
Did I look up to pray	J2
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The time is past and now that grows	F
The cypress high among the trees	F
And I behold white sepulchres	F
As well as the white rose	F
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When wiser meeker thoughts are given	B
And I have learnt to lift my face	F
Reminded how earth's greenest place	F
The colour draws from heaven	B
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It something saith for earthly pain	M2
But more for heavenly promise free	H
That I who was would shrink to be	H
That happy child again	V

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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