VII

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Hector in the Garden

In the garden, lay supinely

      A huge giant, wrought of spade!

      Arms and legs were stretched at length,

      In a passive giant strength,—

And the meadow turf, cut finely,

      Round them laid and interlaid.

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