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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spirit- 

 ual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight. 



Cardinal Newman. 



The word garden is a never-ceasing delight, it 

 seems to me Oriental, — perhaps I have a transmitted 

 sense from my grandmother Eve of the Garden of 



E'^^"- Alice Morse Earle. 



A Garden is a lovesome thing, God wot ! 

 Rose plot, 



Fringed pool, 

 Fern'd grot — 



The veriest school 

 Of Peace ; and yet the fool 



Contends that God is not — 

 Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool? 

 Nay, but I have a sign; 

 ' Tis very sure God walks in mine. 



Thomas Edward Brown. 



Perhaps no word of six letters concentrates so 

 much human satisfaction as the word "garden." 

 Not accidentally, indeed, did the inspired writer 

 make Paradise a garden: and still to-day, when a 

 man has found all the rest of the world vanity, he 

 retires into his garden. 



When man needs just one word to express in 

 rich and poignant symbol his sense of accumulated 

 beauty and blessedness, his first thought is of a gar- 

 den. The saint speaks of " The Garden of God." 

 " A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse," cries 

 the lover; or, "There is a garden in her face," he 

 sings ; and the soldier's stern dream is of a " garden 

 of swords." The word " heaven" itself is hardly 

 more universally expressive of human happiness 

 than the word "garden." ^.^^^^^ ^, Gallienne. 



