A garden rosary . nearer, to fancy them all swayedby the instinct of mankind ? The birth of a flower is painless; itsdevelopment unattended by ills; its mat-ing sure; its separation from its maturedoffspring without regret. Does it enhancethe meaning of life to imagine that the A GARDEN ROSARY 55 dandelion, sending its babies flying outinto the world, experiences the unutterablegrief of the human mother at the depart-ure of her children ? Ah, no! those to whom a flower gardenbrings the greatest solace will find nomeaning in the assurance that these aloofand lovely friends are subject to the sa
A garden rosary . nearer, to fancy them all swayedby the instinct of mankind ? The birth of a flower is painless; itsdevelopment unattended by ills; its mat-ing sure; its separation from its maturedoffspring without regret. Does it enhancethe meaning of life to imagine that the A GARDEN ROSARY 55 dandelion, sending its babies flying outinto the world, experiences the unutterablegrief of the human mother at the depart-ure of her children ? Ah, no! those to whom a flower gardenbrings the greatest solace will find nomeaning in the assurance that these aloofand lovely friends are subject to the sadrepetition of ambitions, despairs, pas-sions, that our too tightly strung mental-ity is heir to. They live, they breathe; theyhave their being; but, oh, how differentlyfrom us ! Unhampered by the cumbersomeprocesses of emotion and logic and self-will, they happily commune with Godaccording to the harmony of their nature— not according to the nature of the chafedand wistful mortal who so yearninglysurveys 56 a garden rosary July 2^ veil has fallen between me andmy garden: my own mood hasrisen like a blank y impenetra-ble mist between me and the flowers. Invain I clip and tend and pluck. They tellme nothing. For the way of communica-tion between the human world and theworld of nature is over the slenderest ofbridges, and only when one is in a psychicmood will ones feet fi?id and keep theswaying way across. Always men are try-ing to analyze the exact number and fiber oflinks that bind — or separate — the min-eral from the vegetable; the vegetable fromthe animal; the animal from the human;the human from the divine. Elaboratelyarmed with science they manage everyyear or so to push back some of the oldtheories and construct new ones — to be,in their turn, destroyed. It is possible thatscience may, indeed, reduce and tabulateall forms of matter into their possibly, too, the scientific power is A GARDEN ROSARY 57 not so direct nor any more true than thepsyc
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