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con amore. Otherwise it becomes but another 

 phase of wearing work. I am satisfied that the 

 Good Father meant that His children should 

 play not a little all through their earthly lives, 

 and if grave men and women played more, they 

 could do more and better work. Why should 

 not men play ? Don't old apple-trees blossom 

 as well as the daisies ? Wearing toil was never 

 meant for unfallen man, and yet Adam and Eve 

 were gardeners from the first. (For I am satis- 

 fied that Eve did not sit in a bower and read 

 novels all day while Adam "delved," and we 

 know she did not spend her time in dressing.) 

 Therefore, on our cursed thistle-growing earth, 

 may we not find in the garden hints of that 

 labor that rests body and soul labor having 

 more enjo^aient than wanton frolic? Come 

 with me into my garden and see, even when 

 preparing for winter, instead of spring with its 

 promise, and summer with its ripe fulfilment 



