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1864–1900

IN A GARDEN.

Richard Hovey

Thought is a garden wide and old For airy creatures to explore, Where grow the great fantastic flowers With truth for honey at the core.

There like a wild marauding bee Made desperate by hungry fears, From gorgeous If to dark Perhaps I blunder down the dusk of years.

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