. The happy garden . z <J Q2 < W acco ca en DOwo < a: I wI H Cherry W^k and Lawn the sky almost, one is afraid to enter the littlegrassy avenue. Such purity is there ! It is a placefor children, and young lovers, boy and girl, melt-ing under the sweet burden of their love, stealingshy glances, sighing, thinking all the loveliness ofheaven and earth is in themselves, and so big with it that they are afraid, hand in hand, to walk slowlyto the mossy seat under the weeping elms ! Oh! Jane! Jane has squeezed a funny little tear out of hereye. It is running down her nose : Let us go in. 63.
. The happy garden . z <J Q2 < W acco ca en DOwo < a: I wI H Cherry W^k and Lawn the sky almost, one is afraid to enter the littlegrassy avenue. Such purity is there ! It is a placefor children, and young lovers, boy and girl, melt-ing under the sweet burden of their love, stealingshy glances, sighing, thinking all the loveliness ofheaven and earth is in themselves, and so big with it that they are afraid, hand in hand, to walk slowlyto the mossy seat under the weeping elms ! Oh! Jane! Jane has squeezed a funny little tear out of hereye. It is running down her nose : Let us go in. 63. A thousand ofpleasant delights^are in an orchard tam/awson IV The Orchard I AM willing to stretch a point and swear that thenightingale sings in the orchard all through theseason, though I am afraid he gave his farewellperformance long ago. I have only once heardhim, and then he was a good quarter of a mileaway from the garden. Perhaps the art of the garden is offensive tosuch a worshipper of Nature, or perhaps, like thepoets, he can best sing of beauty when it is hiddenfrom him. The fact is that the nightingale never comesto the orchard, and, indeed, it is beautiful enoughto stand in no need of romantic embellishment. We eat in the orchard : lunch and tea ; dinnerattracts too many insects to be possible orpleasant. There is a green table and an old public-housesettle under the cherry tree at the end of theprivet hedge, where the della Robbia Madonna isenshrined. 67 The Happy Garden An old flour-bin serves to keep the wind fromthe spirit lamp, over which the coffee is boiled. The whol
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