GARDENS, WREATHS, &c. 
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GARDEN THOUGHTS. 
MONTGOMERY. 
Written on occasion of a Ladies’ Bazaar, in aid of the Church Mis¬ 
sionary Society, being- held in the garden-grounds of a benevolent 
family resident on the banks of the Yorkshire Ouse. 
In a garden — Man was placed, 
Meet abode for innocence; 
With his Maker’s image graced: 
Sin crept in, and drove him thence, 
Through the world, a wretch undone, 
Seeking rest and finding none. 
In a garden,— On that night 
When our Saviour was betray’d, 
With what world-redeeming might, 
In his agony he pray’d! 
Till he drank the vengeance up, 
And with mercy fill’d the cup. 
In a garden, — on the cross, 
When the spear his heart had riven, 
And for earth’s primeval loss 
Heaven’s own ransom had been given, 
Jesus rested from his woes, 
Jesus from the dead arose. 
Here, not Eden’s bowers are found, 
Nor the lone Gethsemane, 
Nor the calm sepulchral ground 
At the foot of Calvary: 
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