LADY FLORA'S GARDEN.
I love to watch my lady flit Anions her Banian's quaint trim plots, Her tresses match the sunflower s gold, Her eyes, the blue forget-me-nots. A very flower among the flowers, She hath the same unconscious grace. Just watch her as the sunshine fulls Upon her blossom of a face. Oh happy rose, that at her waist, She tieth with hit girdle in ! Thrice happy pinks shu tncketh close Bene it li her little dimpled chin I White butterflies—tbat she declares Are dead flowers' —drift to and fro, And .solemn bees, un thrift intent, With their sweet burdens come and go. Til" pansies' wistful faces seem To brighten at her sunny smile; The sweet peas nod th-.-ir li*ul» to her In their own easy kind of style. In sooth, it is a goodly sight, Thi- garden, with its trim quaint plots, And Goddess Flor.i in its midst With eyes like the furget-me-nots. I love my lady at her work, I love her in her hours of rest. But when I see her 'inong her Bowers I think I love my lady best, M. Heddeuwick Browne, in the Sketch.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10416, 14 April 1897, Page 3
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191LADY FLORA'S GARDEN. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10416, 14 April 1897, Page 3
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