132 THE CHEONICLES OF A GARDEN. 



admitted that window -gardening is chiefly valuable for 

 dwellers in towns or for invalids ; and though no doubt 

 these derive both pleasure and benefit from the culture and 

 possession of flowers, it must ever be a less varied enjoy- 

 ment than the garden is capable of yielding. 



If I have succeeded at all, in these simple " Chronicles of 

 a Garden," in aw^akening any one to a sense of how much 

 l)leasure is to be found at all seasons in a garden, however 

 small, I shall feel glad indeed to have been the means of 

 thus shewing that "the lines are fallen to us in pleasant 

 places," and of making the reader enter into the feelings 

 with which Wordsworth thus beautifully moralises on our 

 common pleasures : — 



" Ob, bounty witbout measure ! while tbe grace 

 Of Heaven dotb in such wise from bumblest springs 

 Pour pleasure fortb, and solaces that trace 

 A mazy course along familiar tilings, 

 Well may our bearts have faitb tbat blessings come 

 .Streaming from founts above tbe starry sky 

 Witb angels, vvben tbeir own untroubled borne 

 Tbey leave, and speed on nigbtly embassy 

 To visit eartbly chambers — and for wbom ? 

 Yea, both for souls wbo God's forbearance try. 

 And those that seek His help and for His mercy sigb." 



