Gardens and Their MeaningGinn, 1911 - 235 páginas |
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Página 61 - Laying out grounds, as it is called, may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting; and its object, like that of all the liberal arts, is, or ought to be, to move the affections under the control of good sense...
Página 163 - The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter 'Little Prig; Bun replied, 'You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you...
Página 7 - For the world was built in order, And the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them and the moon.
Página 138 - It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.
Página 17 - Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back — For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Página 82 - ... conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a row of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.
Página 154 - On the sun-dial in the garden The great sun keeps the time; A faint, small moving shadow. And we know the worlds are in rime: And if once that shadow should falter By the space of a child's eye-lash, — The seas would devour the mountains. And the stars together crash, " SOMETHING MISSING FROM THE GARDEN " Something missing from the garden ? But all 's bright there; Color in the daytime.
Página 82 - Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the black earth and the result thereof. Take a poppy seed, for instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardly visible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk, but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable, which will break its bonds and emerge from the dark ground and blossom in...
Página 61 - If this be so when we are merely putting together words or colours, how much more ought the feeling to prevail when we are in the midst of the realities of things...