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"In May, when the winds
pierced our solitudes, I found a rhodora in the woods. O, purple
rival of the rose!" Emerson |
"My garden has a friendly
air; a gated fence and a praying rock beneath a dogwood tree."
Lucille Thompson |
"Rest your limbs this summer
day 'neath fair leaves of spreading bay and enjoy the west wind's airy
buffeting." Anyte |
"The violet in her green wood
bower may boast itself the fairest flower, in glen, in copse, or forest
dingle." Sir Walter Scott |
"Glorious God of the granite
and the rose."
Elizabeth Doten |