KATE is like a violet, Gertrude's like a rose, <br />Jane is like a gillyflower smart; <br />But Laura's like a lily, the purest bud that blows, <br />Whose white, white petals veil the golden heart. <br />Girls in the garden--one and two and three-- <br />One for song and one for play and one--ah, one for me! <br />Gillyflowers and violets and roses fair and fine, <br />But only one a lily, and that one lily mine! <br /> <br /> <br />Bertha is a hollyhock, stately, tall, and fair, <br />Mabel has the daisy's dainty grace, <br />Edith has the gold of the sunflower on her hair, <br />But Laura wears the lily in her face. <br />Girls in the garden--five and six and seven-- <br />Three to take, and three to give, but one--ah! one is given-- <br />Hollyhocks and daisies, and sunflowers like the sun, <br />But only one a lily, and that one lily won.<br /><br />Edith Nesbit<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-garden-of-girls/
