MY GARDEN 



A GARDEN is a lovesome thing, God wot ! 

 Rose plot, 



Fringed pool, 

 Fern'd grot 



The veriest school 



Of peace ; and yet the fool 

 Contends that God is not 

 Not God ! in gardens ! when the eve is cool ? 



Nay, but I have a sign ; 



'Tis very sure God walks in mine. 



THOMAS EDWARD BROWN. 



THE LORD GOD PLANTED A GARDEN 



THE Lord God planted a garden 



In the first white days of the world ; 



And set there an angel warden, 

 In garments of light unfurled. 



So near to the peace of Heaven, 



That the hawk might nest with the wren; 

 For there in the cool of the even 



God walked with the first of men. 

 J 



