“O Sprengen des Gartens, das Grün zu ermutigen!
Wässern der durstgen Bäume! Gib mehr als genug. Und
Vergiß nicht das Strauchwerk, auch
Das beerenlose nicht, das ermattete
Geizige! Und übersieh mir nicht
Zwischen den Blumen das Unkraut, das auch
Durst hat. Noch gieße nur
Den frischen Rasen oder den versengten nur:
Auch den nackten Boden erfrische du.”

(Bertolt Brecht in “Vom Sprengen des Gartens”)
Spa (B)

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“A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,
And closed them beneath the kisses of night.”

(P.B. Shelley in The Sensitive Plant)
Orp-Jauche (B)

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“A wild poppy-flower
Withered and died.

The day-people laughed —
But the night-people cried.

A wild poppy-flower
Withered and died.”

(J.M. Langston Hughes in Poppy flower)
Liège (B)

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“The blossom-snow begins to blow
About the orchard close.
The fields forget the violet,
But soon shall bloom the rose, my Dear,
Ah! soon shall bloom the rose.”

(R. Marriott Watson in Prelude)
Orp-Jauche (B)

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