Show i i mr 5 by Edgar A. A Guest I THE RHODODENDRONS Ive had trouble with rhododendrons I never can get them to grow Now Ive I've been through the Carolinas and Im I'm certain the reason reason I know Ive I've bought the then them each spring in their splendor and nd and Ive I've carefully brought them to bloom But Dut the following season they've theve withered and the winter has fashioned their doo doom I have have nursed nursed them and cared for tor them truly I have sheltered them all that I could Imported or or native Ive I've loved them them but always have failed as I should Now Ive I've s seen n them at home In their splendor full tull strong on or their mountains and hlll hills And I know its it's not winter that does it ft its it's downright downright down down- right homesickness that kills kills' f t My y ry ground i with true love may be tended my space ma may maj be ovely kovely and fair The f od d I provide may be plenty but theres there's never nevera 1 a mountainside there And were I by the kindliest people set down where but strangers go by Though they lavished affection upon me J know I should wither and dieThe die Th The bright rhododendrons will flourish on the side o of ot the mountains and hills MUs I With t the e spruces and pines for their neighbors and the songs of the rivers river and rills And I know now the cause of my tall failure re why I io loso all all' the plants which I buy 4 Homesick and a d h heavy heart ear he eart-he t-h t ea vy they wither er for br i they 5 want what hat I supply I i J iI I Copyright l S Edgar A. Guest t tc A c x v J t |