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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ENCHANTMENT, by CHRISTINE L. HENDERSON
First Line: The garden by the river sleeps
Last Line: The river by the garden sleeps.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening
First Line: The garden by the river sleeps
Last Line: The river by the garden sleeps.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening
The garden by the river sleeps
And dreams away the summer hours,
And holds the petals of its flowers
Unshed in its still, scented bowers, --
The river by the garden sleeps.
The garden by the river weeps
In autumn rain 'mid falling flowers,
And all its beauty trembling cowers
Beneath the leaden sky that lowers, --
The river by the garden weeps.
The garden by the river sleeps,
The snow-white sleep of death o'erpowers
And wraithlike lies on turf and towers,
Yet resurrection-life endowers!
The river by the garden sleeps.
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