NASTURTIUMS.
One led me through a garden wide and fair, “Arc not my roses beautiful!’’ she said; And so I praised them, delicately bred, And wisely tended with another s care. . I love nasturtiums best, with thready hearts, And flamy petals brave as poverty Decked out in hope, for in my memory There is a picture, solaces and smarts — A little barefoot girl, upon her knees, Pondering nasturtiums by a ragged fence. I hear again the childish confidence. That whispered reverently, “God planted these!’’
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 88, 7 January 1933, Page 17
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84NASTURTIUMS. Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 88, 7 January 1933, Page 17
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