74 FROM A MIDDLESEX GARDEN 



flowers. In the garden is a truly royal blossom of Spring, 

 the crown imperial, always an object for admiration. And 

 what could one say in praise of the sky above the garden, or 

 the chance birds, and birds familiar to it ; of the air full of 

 stars white and coral-pink stars that are blown petals which 

 the wind brings in drifts, as though to let one know that 

 Spring is at play amid the branches ! 



