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Gather them out of the valley -- / Bring them from moorland and hill, / And cast them in wreaths and in garlands. / On the city so silent and still -- / So voiceless, so silent, and still; / Where neighbor speaks never to neighbor, / Where the song of the bird, and the brown bee is heard, / But never the harsh sounds of labor.
Bring them from woodland and meadow -- / As fresh, and as fair, as can be. / Bring them, all kinds, and all colors. / That grow upon upland and lea -- / That spring in wild grace on the lea. / And rifle the green earth's warm bosom / Of each flower, and blow, till "God's acre" shall glow / And bloom, like a garden in blossom.