INTRODUCTION 



dens gravitate as by a natural impulse all true 

 lovers. Beneath the canopy of their leafy bow- 

 ers vows have been exchanged and troths plighted 

 which have meant all that life holds for mortals. 

 The Garden of Peace of the present is the Gar- 

 den of Love of the Past. Memory pauses to live 

 again its youth's happiness and its youth's pas- 

 sion ; and the landscape takes on anew the radi- 

 ance of the glory of bygone days. 



And what more fitting place for children than 

 a garden ? The mere apposition of the words 

 " children " and " garden " satisfies our sense of 

 the fitness of things. Surely a garden was first 

 made for children for those pure in heart who 

 live in innocence, and for those chastened in 

 spirit whom experience has taught that the child- 

 like life is nearest to the true life. Thus from 

 the Garden of Peace through the Garden of 

 Love we plant our Garden of Joy. And in the 

 Garden of Joy men and women, like Enoch of 

 old, walk with God. 



" A Garden is a lovesome thing, God wot ! 

 Rose plot, 

 Fringed pool, 

 Ferned grot 



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