Re: Iris Poem?
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- Subject: Re: Iris Poem?
- From: R* T* D* <r*@sierratel.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 14:04:03 -0700 (MST)
Carol Blais wrote:
>
> For a Grange meeting tonight, we are featuring poetry, so I thought it would
> be nice to have one about, or including irises. I had planned to spend
> some time today at our local library, but had forgotten about the holiday!
> Can anyone help - even one that someone online has written would be
> fine, as long as I have permission to use it?
>
Carol,
One of my favorite iris related poems I found in an old catalog of
"Green Gate Gardens 1931" which used to be in Bennettsville, South
Carolina. The owners name was Gabrielle Drake McColl. The poem as
follows:
"The garden with its little gate of green,
Invites you to enter, and view mysteries unseen,
Its vine laden bowers and overhanging trees,
The air filled with sweetness, the hum of the bees,
The flagged walks with Iris galore,
Of most beautiful coloring, unknown before,
Pink, white, purple, yellow, azure blue,
Mixed and mingled of every hue,
You come away wondering, can more beauty be seen
Than in the garden with its little gate of green.
-Winstead.
