280 SOME GARDEN CONTRASTS 



where the gardens, beautiful as they are, lack the 

 practical use and deeper religious significance of 

 Indian garden-craft. 



Far, and far, our homes are set round the Seven Seas : 

 Woe to us if we forget, we that hold by these : 

 Unto each his mother-beach, bloom, and bird, and land — 

 Masters of the Seven Seas, oh ! love and imderstand. 



The Flowers — Rudyakd Kipling. 



