A garden rosary . Il8 A GARDEN ROSARY October 5 stood by the window to-day andwatched them digging up thegladioli bulbs and stowing themaway for the winter. With all the au-tumn foliage fading fast^ and even thegladioli vanishing^ I like to rememberthe pretty Japanese custom of takingdown pictures after they have delightedthe spectators for a certain period, rollingthem up and putting them away, untilthe season returns when it shall be properto rehang them: an unconscious homageto the beautiful law of A GARDEN ROSARY II9 October 6 went riding to-day down thesplendid aisles of autu
A garden rosary . Il8 A GARDEN ROSARY October 5 stood by the window to-day andwatched them digging up thegladioli bulbs and stowing themaway for the winter. With all the au-tumn foliage fading fast^ and even thegladioli vanishing^ I like to rememberthe pretty Japanese custom of takingdown pictures after they have delightedthe spectators for a certain period, rollingthem up and putting them away, untilthe season returns when it shall be properto rehang them: an unconscious homageto the beautiful law of A GARDEN ROSARY II9 October 6 went riding to-day down thesplendid aisles of autumn car-pets and autumn banners. Isaw them all: the apples on the trees; thepumpkins against the hams; the salviaand cosmos in the garden beds; and the*happy autumn fields on every they spoke nothing to me. My heartwas full of grief because she could not seeit, too. What comfort to believe that she— like the sleeping children saw fairerin her dreams. I longed, intensely,with strong human longing, for her eyesto rest with mine, at that very moment,on those special sights. Alas — whatlonging shall be in the future, when, onreturning home, I cannot even speak toher of what I have seen and heard! I20 A GARDEN ROSARY October 8 hey have sent her a Killarneyfrom the garden on the distanthillside J and I have placed itin a tall glass vase beside her bed. Ah —strange times, when even this pale, fragilething may outlive her who planted it!
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