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My garage is a structure of excessive plainness,
It springs from a dry bank in the back garden,
It is made of corrugated iron,
And painted all over with brick-red.

But beside it I have planted a green Bay-tree,
—A sweet Bay, an Olive, and a Turkey Fig,
—A Fig, an Olive, and a Bay.

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Title: From a Garden in the Antipodes

Author: Evelyn Hayes

Publication details: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1929, London

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

This text is the subject of: National Library of New Zealand

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