A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



"Let us shut the Summer in when the year is growing old, 

 And build a fortress round her against the Khan of Cold, 

 With bastions of cypress, cedar, pine and fir. 

 And walls of yew and ivy floors, and keep them green for 

 her, 



"With berries of the berberis and beds of bitter-sweet 

 To entangle her and hold her and charm her flying feet. 

 Let us keep the sun and birds with us that Summer may 



not know 

 How the snow-white phantom horsemen ride and drive to 



and fro. 



"Outside, the Khan is there with his cohorts himdreds deep. 

 But in this green Elysium the rhododendrons keep 

 With the juniper and holly the dreams that haxmt them 



yet 

 Of the spirit of the Smnmer they never would forget." 

 — ^Fbedeeick Petebson, "The Winter Garden." 



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