Mothers Are the Gardeners

Music: Down by the Sally Gardens.
Sequenced by Barry Taylor.

Mothers are the gardeners
Of wind-blown wild flowers.
They water them with happy tears,
Happy with them many years,
Even as the hours
Ring with sweet, sad melodies
Sighing through their bowers.

Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.



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