My Garden
Rev.
T. P.
Johnston
Johnston, T. P.
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Poem signed T. P. Johnston.
Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that Johnston was paid £1 1s for the poem (NLS Dep 341/371). (AC)
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
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My garden all a shimmer of leaves,
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My Garde
n.
My garden all a shimmer of leaves,
All a glowing glory of light ;
Flowers, golden and blue and red,
Crowding together in my sight.
Mighty billows of softest air
Blowing in the trees o’erhead ;
I am sitting alone, and think
Thus will it be when I am dead.
Thus will the soft wind blow, and thus
The flowers will bloom and the sun will shine ;
And others, I know not who, will sit,
As I do now, in this garden of mine.
And I shall be gone from here—but where ?
Dead, and lying within the ground ;
Or living and glad amid scenes more fair,
With flowers, still brighter than these, around ?
T. P. Johnston
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