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/ I. The mellow smell of hollyhocks / And marigolds and pinks and phlox / Blends with the homely garden scents / Of onions, silvering into rods; / Of peppers, scarlet with their pods; / And (rose of all the esculents) / Of broad plebeian cabbages, / Breathing content and corpulent ease.
/ II. The buzz of wasp and fly makes hot / The spaces of the garden-plot; / And from the orchard, -- where the fruit / Ripens and rounds, or, loosed with heat, / Rolls, hornet-clung, before the feet, -- / One hears the veery's golden flute, / That mixes with the sleepy hum / Of bees that drowsily go and come.