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THE SUMMER-HOUSE. 
Oh ! by yonder mossy seat, 
In my hours of sweet retreat, 
Might I thus my soul employ, 
With sense of gratitude and joy, 
Raised, as ancient prophets were, 
In heav’nly vision, praise, and pray’r, 
Pleasing all men, hurting none, 
Pleas’d and bless’d with God alone! 
Parnell. 
S UMMER-HOUSES of some sort are desirable, and indeed almost 
necessary features in gardens of all dimensions and styles. Indeed, 
the grander the garden, the greater need for places of retirement, 
for rest, shelter, conservation, and sometimes for that blessed change 
“ out of the house" which comes over every one of us at times, when 
the air is balmy, the trees leafy, and the routine of domestic life a little 
tame or wearisome, as it will be on occasions in the best-regulated homesteads. 
