<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Gardener</h1><h1 align="center" class="head"><em>For Violet</em></h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">In</span> the garden she hath found</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Herb of grace and fever-few;</p><p class="line">Woundwort there doth much abound,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Heartsease too.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Where she laid dead things away</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">In the chilly earth, what stir!</p><p class="line">Whisper of Spring-time, green and gay,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Comes to her.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">All Sweet-Nancies, daffodils,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Talking in their beds below</p><p class="line">Of sweet vales and shining hills</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Whither they go.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">In the garden there's no grief;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">God walks there and He is kind,</p><p class="line">When the first dear crumpled leaf</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Shakes in the wind.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">There's no death now. Winter's done.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">All's given back. The dead again</p><p class="line">Walk with her in the wind and sun</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And the sweet rain.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Heartsease in her garden plot,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Ladders-to-Heaven scale the skies;</p><p class="line">While the dear forget-me-not</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Brightens her eyes.</p></div></body></html> · Great War