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In the agreeable public gardens of Poplar / The bushes are bright with buds, / For this is the season of Clear Weather. / There blossom the quiet flowers of this country: / The timid lilac, / The unassuming hawthorn, / The dignified chestnut, / And the girlish laburnum; / And the mandarin of them all is the rhododendron.
In the untilled field of my heart / Many simple buds are bursting. / There is a little bush of kindliness towards all men. / There is a slender tree of forgiveness for all wrongs. / There is a humble growth of repentance for past sins. / And around the field is a thick hedge of thankfulness.
And Ho! in the midst of all / Stands the tree of a hundred boughs / Laden with the sweetest of all buds / Which are breaking to flower under the sun of a maiden's eyes.