The Happy Garden 



which are lines not among those thousand which 



Ben Jonson thought Shakespeare had better have 



blotted out, though they are not enough to justify 



the disputants in saying that Shakespeare was 



Bacon, or that the poet was at one time a 



gardener by profession. 



And here by the rose and honeysuckle pergola, 



adorned also with kerria japonica (" old men's 



buttons "), which is yellow, though inoffensive, since 



it blossoms early when few other flowers are out, is 



Jane murmuring to herself in a sort of hurt, rapt way: 



" Woman is unutterably more wicked than man, and 

 more clever ; goodness in a icoman is a form of degenera- 

 tion." 



Nietzsche ! 



She could not have remembered it if she had 



read it. Elisabeth must have been talking to her. 



Elisabeth wants to make her think. / want to 



make her feel : — 



" You must love the light so xcell, 

 That no darkness will seem fell, 

 Love it so you could accost 

 Felloivly a livid ghost . . . 



(Even Elisabeth) 



Light to light sees little strange 



Only features heavenly new: 



Then you toucJi the nerve of Change 



Then of Earth you have the clue : 



Then her tico-se.ved meanings melt 



Through you, tved the thought and felt." 



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