A PERSIAN GARDEN 75 



"I sometimes think that never blows so red 

 The Rose as where some buried Ccesar bled; 



That every Hyacinth the Garden wears 

 Dropt in her lap from some once lovely Head." 



An interesting floral allusion in this garden 

 is a fringe of the purple Pasque Flower 

 {Anemone Pulsatilla), sent thither from 

 Fleam Dyke near Cambridge where once it 

 grew plentifully, and I guessed rightly that 

 the owner of this garden intended these flowers 

 to suggest a parallel to Omar's Roses, remem- 

 bering, as I did, that the Pasque Flower grows 

 on English soil only, where Danish blood has 

 been spilt. 



Back of these beds Hawthorn trees form 

 lines to the stream and across the garden. 



"Now the New Year reviving old Desires, 

 The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires. 

 Where the white hand of Moses on the 

 Bough 

 Puts out, and Jesv^ from the grovmd suspires." 



I have seen them in all the purity of their 

 white blossoming bringing back to mind the 



