244 A WHITE-PAPER GARDEN 



out of the East with the sunlight in their veins, 

 if there be no answering loveliness of mid- 

 summer lilies, or late autumn asters ? A pause 

 of even a week between the flowerings of your 

 garden-beds means that you have been faithless 

 to the highest teachings, and careless of their 

 offered bounty. 



Perceiving these truths, living them and 

 showing them to others, the garden may 

 become a little centre of civilising influences 

 from which peace, and order, and contentment 

 irradiate who can say how far ? 



