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HAD I the power that have the will, / The enfeebled will-a modern curse- / This book of mine should blossom still / A perfect garden-ground of verse.
White placid marble gods should keep / Good watch in every shadowy lawn; / And from clean, easy-breathing sleep / The birds should waken me at dawn.
-A fairy garden; -none the less / Throughout these gracious paths of mine / All day there should be free access / For stricken hearts and lives that pine;
And by the folded lawns all day- / No idle gods for such a land- / All active Love should take its way / With active Labour hand in hand.