Looks like a lawn, an expanse of close-cut green,

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if you don’t look down to the details.
Oh, there is a little grass blended in.

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Lemon balm, fresh as morning, all year long.

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The fern fronds are evergreen,

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ordered and skilled in their geometry

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beyond anything we have ever done in ours.