MY GARDEN 

 OF DREAMS 



The garden has many lessons to teach, but 

 none does it more surely teach than this: If 

 the cultivation of a garden does not promote 

 the tender graces and extend the sweet char- 

 ities of life, it is proof sufficient that we have 

 not learned the secret of its life, and are still 

 outside of that knowledge which alone makes 

 it truly one's own. 



It is a large truth that God would teach us 

 in the garden. He is constantly reminding us 

 that man is not the center and aim of all that 

 exists, for in spite of all that man can do He 

 holds the garden open, through gateways of 

 earth and sky, to bird and insect, for whom, 

 as truly as for us, flower and fruit are made. 



"Other eyes than ours 

 Are made to look on flowers. 

 Eyes of small birds and insects small, 

 The deep sun-blushing rose 

 Around which the prickles close 

 Opens her bosom to them all. 

 The tiniest living thing 

 That soars on feathered wing 



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"Other eyes than ours 

 Are made to look on flowers. 



