My Unforgettable Poem (since grade 3, i still remember the lines until now ^^)

GREEN THINGS GROWING

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik [1826-1887]

O the green things growing, the green things growing,The faint sweet smell of the green things growing!I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve,Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing.

O the fluttering and the pattering of those green things growing!How they talk each to each, when none of us are knowing;In the wonderful white of the weird moonlightOr the dim dreamy dawn when the cocks are crowing.

I love, I love them so - my green things growing!And I think that they love me, without false showing;For by many a tender touch, they comfort me so much,With the soft mute comfort of green things growing.

And in the rich store of their blossoms glowingTen for one I take they're on me bestowing:Oh, I should like to see, if God's will it may be,Many, many a summer of my green things growing!

But if I must be gathered for the angel's sowing,Sleep out of sight awhile, like the green things growing,Though dust to dust return, I think I'll scarcely mourn,If I may change into green things growing.