WILD WALL-GARDENS 



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secret gardens there is good store of it. The stone-fern 

 and lady-fern hang together at the mouth of the little 

 grotto, or at the drier edge of the dripping wall; and 

 close to where the water springs there droop the long 

 polished leaves of the hart's-tongue, and the delicate fronds 

 of wild maiden-hair, brushed with spray-drops by the wing 

 of the wren. 



