MY GARDEN garden, and the garden will express thought 



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and feeling as truly as a poem or a 1 ennyson 

 or a Shelley. 



There are gardens that are outbursts of 

 rhythmic expression of purest idealism as truly 

 as the noblest poem ever written. There are 

 garden effects that are pure lyrics, garden 

 scenes charmingly idyllic. There are gardens 

 as free and spontaneous as the outbursts of a 

 Blake or the delicious melodies of a Proctor, 

 gardens that have all the melody and grace of 

 one of Swinburne's creations. There are gar- 

 dens as rich in expression as the poetry of 

 Keats, others as chaste and pure under classic 

 restraint as the poems of Matthew Arnold, or 

 varied in poetic elements, yet with complete 

 and even balance, as the sustained composi- 

 tions of Tennyson. Nature is limitless in her 

 works and moods. It needs only that the 

 garden poet understand her moods and 

 have skill in using her gifts to give her 

 voice. 



The fact that the garden is not poetical to 

 all does not count against the claim here made 

 for it any more than the fact that all do not 



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