Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

<h2><SPAN name="THE_GARDENER" id="THE_GARDENER"></SPAN>THE GARDENER</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">The gardener does not love to talk,<br/></span> <span class="i12">He makes me keep the gravel walk;<br/></span> <span class="i12">And when he puts his tools away,<br/></span> <span class="i12">He locks the door and takes the key.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Away behind the currant row<br/></span> <span class="i12">Where no one else but cook may go,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Far in the plots, I see him dig,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Old and serious, brown and big.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">He digs the flowers, green, red and blue,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Nor wishes to be spoken to.<br/></span> <span class="i12">He digs the flowers and cuts the hay,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And never seems to want to play.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Silly gardener! summer goes,<br/></span> <span class="i12">And winter comes with pinching toes,<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</SPAN></span><span class="i12">When in the garden bare and brown<br/></span> <span class="i12">You must lay your barrow down.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Well now, and while the summer stays,<br/></span> <span class="i12">To profit by these garden days,<br/></span> <span class="i12">O how much wiser you would be<br/></span> <span class="i12">To play at Indian wars with me!<br/></span></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_018.jpg" width-obs="150" height-obs="253" alt="Illustration" /></div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <hr class="full" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />