GOOSE À LA MODE

—Mary, Mary, quite contrary,

How does your garden grow?

WITHIN the garden's deepness filled of light

Stood Mary, and upon her fair green gown

Fell glory of gold hair, a stern sweet frown

Was on her forehead, slim cold hands and white

Made ending of her long pale arms' delight.

And questioning, I—"How does your garden grow?"

Then she—"With bells that ring, and shells that sing

Of strange gray seas, with fair, strong hands that cling

Together, stand tall damozels a-row."

Elizabeth Cavazza.