The Night Mail and Other Poems

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 03:53 PM

Old and serious, brown and big.

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 03:53 PM

He digs the flowers, green, red, and blue,

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 03:54 PM

Nor wishes to be spoken to.

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 03:54 PM

He digs the flowers and cuts the hay,

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 03:55 PM

And never seems to want to play.

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 03:55 PM

Silly gardener! summer goes,

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 03:56 PM

And winter comes with pinching toes,

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 03:56 PM

When in the garden bare and brown

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 03:57 PM

You must lay your barrow down.

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 03:58 PM

Well now, and while the summer stays,

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 03:58 PM

To profit by these garden days

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 03:59 PM

O how much wiser you would be

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 04:00 PM

To play at Indian wars with me!

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 04:09 PM

The Deserted Garden by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

**julesapple** · 31-12-2013, 04:09 PM

I mind me in the days departed,

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