A GARDEN 

 ENCLOSED 



A GARDEN ENCLOSED 



In his "Song of Songs" Solomon sings of 

 "a garden enclosed/' Into such a garden 

 Tennyson's Maud was called by her lover. 



Andrew Marvel speaks of "green thought 

 in a green shade" — fancies of the mind in the 

 lovely quiet of a green old garden. 



The captive Israelite found his ideal of 

 security and peace "under his vine and fig 

 tree," where none made him afraid. 



These poetic representations are symbols, 

 for, will fancies spring, or dreams come, or 

 lovers meet, or the deep sense of home be felt, 

 in a garden open to the public gaze ? 



The enclosed garden symbolizes civilized 

 man's relation to wild nature. At first it is a 

 contest for mastery, but it results in an alliance 

 by which nature is tamed and rendered more 

 beautiful, and in turn ministers to man and 

 becomes his inspiration in art and song. 

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