AUGUST 



Madonna Lilies. 



A Garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! 

 Rose plot, 



Fringed pool, 

 Ferned grot — 

 The veriest school 

 Of peace; and yet the fool 

 Contends that God is not — 

 Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool? 

 Nay, but I have a sign: 

 'Tis very sure God walks in mine. 



— Thomas Edward Brown. 



