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ONCE UPON A TIME.
Well, we're really going back into the mists of time with this poem!
I wrote it when I was eleven, about the same age as the child in the picture.
Well, we're really going back into the mists of time with this poem!
I wrote it when I was eleven, about the same age as the child in the picture.
Sadly, my 'green fingers' didn't survive adulthood, and I'm no longer prayerful. But it was meant sincerely at the time.
ONCE UPON A TIME
Once upon a time, my friends,
When all the world was new,
I wrote the little verses
Which I now present to you.
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God of all good things look down
When all the world was new,
I wrote the little verses
Which I now present to you.
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God of all good things look down
On my garden plot so brown.
Though I have but humble flowers,
Feed them with thy cooling showers.
Though I have but lowly blooms,
Such as daisies and gold brooms,
Shepherds' Purses, Ladies' Smocks,
One day I'll have hollyhocks,
Lilies, pansies, pinks and roses,
Not these humble little posies.
But you love them just as well,
Scented-stock like cowslip bell,
And you'll satisfy their needs
Though men call my flowers weeds.
You may enjoy some other nostalgic poems.
You may enjoy some other nostalgic poems.
1 comment:
Wow.... at the age of eleven you wrote this poem..!!! How sweet.
Loved the last line the little one had written "Though men call my flowers weeds."And remembering the half-poem you had written years later (when you were in Fairy Queen mode :)))
http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2008/10/177-god-wot.html
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