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. 



— TJiomas Edward Brown. 



