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I chose me a lovely garden	A
Beneath whose ivied wall	B
A lake's blue wavelets murmur	C
As evening shadows fall	B
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A garden whose leafy windows	D
Frame visions of Alpine snow	E
On peaks that burn to crimson	A
In sunset's afterglow	E
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And there in its sweet seclusion	A
I built me a mansion fair	F
With many a classic statue	G
And Eastern relic rare	F
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And volumes whose precious pages	H
Hold all that the wise have said	I
The latest among the living	J
The greatest among the dead	I
	-
And I sat in those fragrant arbors	H
Of laurel and palm and pine	K
And held in the tranquil twilight	L
My darling's hand in mine	K
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And said We will here be happy	M
And let the mad world go	E
Its gold no longer tempts us	H
Still less do its pomp and show	E
	-
No more shall its cares annoy us	H
And under these stately trees	H
With Nature and Art and Letters	H
Our souls shall take their ease	H
	-
But a brood of griefs pursued us	H
Like evil birds of prey	N
They lodged in the trees' tall branches	H
They shadowed the cloudless day	N
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They flew to the darkened casement	N
And beat on the wind swept shade	N
And oft in the sleepless midnight	N
We listened and were afraid	N
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And daily came the tidings	H
Of folly and crime and woe	E
And one by one kept dying	J
The friends of long ago	E
	-
For the Past is ever one's master	C
And Memory mocks at space	H
And Trouble travels with us	H
However swift our pace	H
	-
And envy is always envy	M
Though called by a foreign name	O
And perfidy greed and malice	H
Are everywhere the same	O
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I thought I had left behind me	M
That gloomy realm of care	F
But really one never leaves it	N
Its shadow is everywhere	F
	-
So I learned at last the lesson	A
That walls and gates and keys	H
Can never exclude life's sorrows	H
They enter as they please	H
	-
And if we ever acquire	C
The perfect life we crave	P
A subtle warning tells us	H
Its background is the grave	P
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Perhaps I have almost reached it	N
For when I am walking late	N
I see a shrouded stranger	C
Beside my postern gate	N
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And a sudden chill creeps o'er me	M
At sight of that figure grim	Q
For I fancy that he is waiting	J
For me in the twilight dim	Q
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And I know he will one day beckon	A
With gesture of command	N
And I shall follow him mutely	E
Away to the Silent Land	N
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And all that I here have treasured	N
In fountain and tree and stone	R
Will pass to the hands of others	H
Whom I have never known	R
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Hence over his sombre features	H
There flickers a ghostly smile	E
As if he would say What matter	C
Your cares are not worth while	E
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The trouble which gives you anguish	S
The woes o'er which you weep	T
Will all be soon forgotten	A
In my long dreamless sleep	T
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Enjoy the fleeting moment	N
I cannot always wait	N
And the glow of the coming sunset	N
Is gilding the postern gate	N

John L. Stoddard

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