VARIOUS GARDENS 



to the discriminating; it is beyond all a question 

 of the mind and eye. The nobler the intellect, 

 the more poetic the imaginative vision, the hap- 

 pier he or she who gardens. And is there any one 

 so happy as the fortunate possessor of a bit of 

 ground and the wish to give a loveliness higher 

 than earth has yet been known to show? He 

 who has done this should be a supremely happy 

 man, and "to the supremely happy man, all times 

 are times of thanksgiving, deep, tranquil, and 

 abundant, for the delight, the majesty, and the 

 beauty of the fulness of the rolling world." 



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