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I PLUCKED the blossoms of delight / In many a wood and many a field, / I made a garland fair and bright / As any gardens yield.
But when I sought the living tree / To make new earth and Heaven new, / I found -- alas for you and me -- / Its roots were set in you.
Oh, dear my garden, where the fruit / Of lovely knowledge sweetly springs, / How jealously you guard the root / Of all enlightening things!