GARDENS OF CELEBRITIES 
his powers, and to save the remnant of his shattered life—it was 
a garden for which the wise physician had expressly stipulated, 
for he looked to a garden to complete the cure. 
And I am sure that one born later—a poet too, though com- 
paratively unknown—but voiced the silent thought of Coleridge 
when he wrote : 
*“‘ 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, and when 
The eve is cool ? 
Nay, but I have a sign, 
°*Tis very sure God walks in mine.” 
T. E. Brown. 
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