does anyone know the rest of this garden poem?

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Kell San Leandro, CA(Zone 9b) Aug 02, 2002

The kiss of the sun is for pardon

The song of the birds for mirth

One is closer to God in a garden

Than anywhere else on earth


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CoCo Aug 02, 2002

God's Garden


THE Lord God planted a garden
In the first white days of the world,
And He set there an angel warden
In a garment of light enfurled.

So near to the peace of Heaven,
That the hawk might nest with the wren,
For there in the cool of the even
God walked with the first of men.

And I dream that these garden-closes
With their shade and their sun-flecked sod
And their lilies and bowers of roses,
Were laid by the hand of God.

The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,--
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.

For He broke it for us in a garden
Under the olive-trees
Where the angel of strength was the warden
And the soul of the world found ease.

- Dorothy Frances Gurney

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Kell San Leandro, CA(Zone 9b) Aug 02, 2002

CoCo
you are too nice!!
thanks

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