From an Old Garden (Cloud)/The Hundred-Leaved Rose
The Hundred-Leaved Rose
Big Mis' Hunnerd-Leaf, kine ob quiet huh way;Pink en sweet en des de same, day after day;She mek all de rose-water'n when de petals fall,Ketch'em in a jar, en dey's sweetness fo' all.Climbin' up de Big House, f'om de sullar to de roof,—She 'mindsmeobOle Mis' . . . . Ain' dat de trufe!