GREECE 



The Garden of the Crown Prince's 

 Palace^ Athens 



npHE "CROWN PRINCE'S PALACE" 



* stands, a marble megathron, foursquare, in 

 the midst of a cool garden of graceful green. 



Here are palm trees firm and broad of girth, 

 sturdily implanted in an oasis of green lawns, 

 whose preciousness may only be esteemed fully 

 by those having a close and personal experience 

 of life in a dry and thirsty land where no 

 water is. 



Here are orange trees bearing at the same 

 time their double trophy of heavy perfumed 

 blossom and those golden apples which, when 

 the world was young, found their way from the 

 Far East to the land of the evening star. From 

 thence, by ancient mariners, they were carried 

 back again as far as Greece, bearing with them, 

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