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StoryTitle("caps", "A Little Dutch Garden ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(9, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I passed by a garden, a little Dutch garden, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where useful and pretty things grew,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heartsease and tomatoes, and pinks and potatoes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lilies and onions and rue.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I saw in that garden, that little Dutch garden, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A chubby Dutch man with a spade,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a rosy Dutch frau with a shoe like a scow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a flaxen-haired little Dutch maid.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There grew in that garden, that little Dutch garden, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blue flag flowers lovely and tall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And early blush roses, and little pink posies, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Gretchen was fairer than all.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My heart 's in that garden, that little Dutch garden,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It tumbled right in as I passed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Mid wildering mazes of spinach and daisies, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Gretchen is holding it fast.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Harriet Whitney Durbin. ")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>