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Origin of garden verse
Does anyone know who wrote this following piece of verse please:
"Give me an house, convenient, clean and fair, An old world garden with its fruitful walls, Orchards and spreading vines, a few tried thralls; A faithful wife unspent with children's care. No debts, no quarrels, lust or lawyers snare. No irksome sharing of ancestral halls; Deriving little, deaf to ambitions calls, Or ought beside that simple folk forswear Grant me to live in low estate at ease, In true devotion telling out my days; Give me a soul at peace from passionate ways, A fearless mind unmarred by man or fate, So praising God I'll graft and prune my trees, Till death comes softly to my garden gate." I've done a google trying ot find the author and found the poem mentioned here but when I google the name of the cited Author there is not one hit: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi...19191025.2.150 Anyone recognise this poem please? |
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