Temple by verdant garden girdled
Mellifluous dares divers thereheard
Trees herded to queer shapes, none straight
Pensieve benches at pleasant station, jasmine scented
Roses twinned gracefully, chimeras dually-blazed
Amazing escarpments and frontage
Fruit like feast’s coloured bunting strung
Bid wonder, with odd frond parloured
Engrossing topiary of Her Father’s grand garden.
Sunflower wheels orange-spoked, fire-smoking Ezekiel careening
How all is laid perfectly
Mayflooers in circles
Circussing cowslip, a dread hydra blazing
Herakles ruined at Hylas’ death setting alight stumps
Whose head at his aggravated blade slumped, dead.
Such stringent arrangement, such cryptic gylph in posie writ
There abounding on the lip testamential Ediths, snowtipped
Edicts to some greenfingered patience
Here as from a manger enlarging
Gold as gold in chests, takebreathing
Appealing yet to pluck one
Eve treason in Elfland
Land’s largesse a foliate hem west-spreading, gem-decked.
She with spurning eye, scorn-seeking, treats suitors a sigh
Icy diamond death, false heat
That kind of world her melancholy eye reports
Climb’ry ivory pillar upcurled
Furled curls foam her girdle
Which ardent lovers throng
Desiring word of bondage
Many deeds honorable
Indeed urn-earning
Turning in tourney, swirling Dervish
Upon sanded surface, crabs curlew murdered astew in sun simmering
Simperers fearing heat or blade keep to shade, sweet verse replaying.
Alchemisland 
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