206 THE CHILD IN THE GARDEN 



Then lady and gentleman fays, come buy ! 

 You never will meet such a merchant as I ! 



GEORGE DARLEY. 



HECTOR IN THE GARDEN 



NINE green years had scarcely brought me 

 To my childhood's haunted spring : 

 I had life, like flowers and bees, 

 In betwixt the country trees ; 



And the sun the pleasure taught me 

 Which he teacheth everything. 



And the sun and I together 



Went a-rushing out of doors : 

 We our tender spirits drew 

 Over hill and dale in view, 



Glimmering hither, glimmering thither, 

 In the footsteps of the showers. 



Underneath the chestnuts dripping, 

 Through the grasses wet and fair, 

 Straight I sought my garden-ground, 

 With the laurel on the mound, 



And the pear-tree oversweeping 

 A side-shadow of green air. 



