Excerpt from Retail Catalogue and Descriptive Price List of Maine Grown Gladiolus Bulbs I held them in my hand, small balls of wonder, Purple and ivory and brown. I broke the soft, dark earth to fold them under, And pressed the yielding soil to hold them down. I know that in their hearts the rainbow lingers, Waiting until it hears a song it knows. Oh, strange - to hold a rainbow in my fingers! It lies there waiting for the melting snows. The little brown song sparrow that comes daring To pour his heart out on an empty bough, Will linger in my garden to be sharing The seven colors that are sleeping now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.