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MAIN STREET AND OTHER POEMS

THE SNOWMAN IN THE YARD (continued) The Judge's money brings architects to make his mansion fair;

The Hales have seven gardeners to make their roses grow;

The Judge can get his trees from Spain and France and everywhere,

And raise his orchids under glass in the midst of all the snow.

But I have something no architect or gardener ever made,

A thing that is shaped by the busy touch of little mittened hands:

And the Judge would give up his lonely estate, where the level snow is laid

For the tiny house with the trampled yard, the yard where the snowman stands.

They say that after Adam and Eve were driven away in tears

To toil and suffer their life-time through, because of the sin they sinned, [ 20 ]