GOD'S GARDEN 11 



And trust me not, my friends, if every day 



I walk not here with more delight 

 Than ever, after the most happy fight, 

 In triumph to the capitol I rode, 

 To thank the gods, and to be thought, myself, 



almost a god. 



ABRAHAM COWLEY. 



THE GARDEN OF EDEN 



AND the Lord God planted a garden eastward in 

 Eden ; and there he put the man whom he had 

 formed. 



And out of the ground made the Lord God to 

 grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and 

 good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of 

 the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good 

 and evil. 



And a river went out of Eden to water the 

 garden ; and from thence it was parted, and /;;- 

 came into four heads. . . . 



And the Lord God took the man, and put him 

 into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 



GENESIS ii. 810, 15. 



GOD'S GARDEN 



(From " Paradise Lost ") 



BLISSFUL Paradise 



Of God the garden Avas, by him in the east 

 Of Eden planted ; Eden stretched her line 



