A CAPE GARDEN. 



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homeland, but for five millions of pounds we could not build that garden 

 wall of yours, which gives the finishing touch to all before us." And her 

 ladyship was right. The " Hill Garden," beautiful though it be, were 

 not the place it is without that eternal wall, whose grandeur has been 

 aptly described by our South African poet : 



O thou stupendous Rock, while life shall last, 



How many treasured pictures of the mind 



Have thy vast background ! Thoughts of thee are shrined 



With happiest memories ; with dearest names ; 



With splendours of such vision as inflames 



The kindred soul to think of, while to see 



Is like a draught of Immortality. 



