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espaliers of pippins and pears, its goodly rows 

 of raspberries and currants, its gooseberries and 

 its strawberry beds, its broad borders of homely 

 flowers half-veiling the rest of its comfortable 

 equipment the kitchen garden that we have known 

 and loved so well in the merry, happy days of 

 unwitting childhood what need to dwell upon its 

 delights ! Surely there is poetry enough of yester- 

 day, to-day, and to-morrow within its walls to waft 

 the thoughts above the mere grovelling of earth 

 into the pure atmosphere of thanksgiving for the 

 solace and beauty and grace of the common things 

 of life ! 



