<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">To A Gardener</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Friend, in my mountain-side demesne</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">My plain-beholding, rosy, green </span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">And linnet-haunted garden-ground,</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Let still the esculents abound.</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Let first the onion flourish there,</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Wine-scented and poetic soul</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Of the capacious salad bowl.</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Let thyme the mountaineer - to dress</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">The tinier birds - and wading cress,</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">The lover of the shallow brook,</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">From all my plots and borders look.</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Nor crisp and ruddy radish, nor</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Pease-cods for the child's pinafore</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Be lacking; nor of salad clan</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">The last and least that ever ran</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">About great nature's garden-beds.</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Nor thence be missed the spear heads</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Of artichoke; nor thence the bean</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">That gathered innocent and green </span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Outsavors the belated pea.</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">These tend, I prithee; and for me,</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Thy most long-suffering master, bring </span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">In April, when the linnets sing</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">And the days lengthen more and more</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">At sundown to the garden door,</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">And I, being provided thus,</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Shall, with superb asparagus,</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">A book, a taper, and a cup</span><br style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">Of country wine, divinely sup.</span><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 22px;"><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 22.666666px;">- Robert Louis Stevenson </span></div><br style="font-size: 18.666666px;"></div></body></html>