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In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

Alexander Smith
Flower, Book, Past
Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”

How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.

Alexander Smith
Beautiful, Dark, Past
Alexander Smith (1858). “A Life-drama, and Other Poems”, p.69

Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.

Alexander Smith
Flower, Past, Bed
Alexander Smith, Peter Pauper Press (1947). “Dreamthorp: eight essays”

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