represents belief in reserve, and courtesy, and A GARDEN 

 r II- ENCLOSED 



reverence for sacred things. 



The way to health for our artificially heated 

 life is not back to the wild, but back to the 

 sweet old ideals of home and hospitality and 

 unselfishness. 



And that is why we must be careful that our 

 "garden enclosed " has gates. 



Our love of the garden must not take us out 

 of touch with the common human sympathies. 

 Nor will it if we be true men and women. 

 One's share in the graces and charities of life 

 need not be curtailed. There may be a sense 

 of seclusion without wholly shutting oneself 

 in, or wholly shutting out everybody or every- 

 thing else. 



Build walls to shut out the things that are 

 raw and unbeautiful, that there may be place 

 for the finer things of life, but there must be 

 open gates that friend and neighbor, yes, and 

 the stranger, may come in, and that you may 

 go out and touch things outside with beauty 

 and idealism and religion. 



Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite 

 Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. 



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