Make me a garden of old-fashioned flowers --
Sweet William, wallflower, pink, and mignonette
With here and there a purple violet
And four o'clocks that tell the tea-time hours.
Border it all with bachelors' buttons bold,
Set red geranium that needs no weeding,
Leave a tiny corner for love-lies-bleeding
And a few daffodils, yellow as gold.
Sow blue forget-me-nots and pale sweet peas,
Nasturtium, candytuft, and Canterbury bell.
And to remind me lest I love too well,
Prithee! Do not forget to plant heartsease.
First published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 July 1938
