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My garden

Language: English

A garden is a lovesome thing
God wot
Rose plot,
Fringed pool,
Fern'd grot
The veriest school
of peace and yet the fool
contends that God is not
Not God!
in Gardens when the eve is cool?
Nay, but I have a sign;
'Tis very sure God walks in mine.


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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Set in Welsh, a translation of Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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