MY GARDEN WILD

SB

.H 44

'The ivy seems to cling round his heart, and the sweet-scented honeysuckle to twine its branches round his imagination-he writes, as it were, in a bower of wild flowers, and the sweet scents of the forest and the meadow hover with balmy freshness round his pen.'

Popular Science Review.

SYLVAN SPRING THE

FERN PARADISE' BURNHAM BEECHES''TREES AND FERNS
PEASANT LIFE' 'THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY' ETC.

'Beautiful flowers! to me ye fresher seem
From the Almighty hand that fashion'd all,
Than those that flourish by a garden wall
And I can image you as in a dream,
Fair modest maidens, nursed in hamlets small-
I love ye all !

Beautiful children of the glen and dell

The dingle deep-the moorland stretching wide,
And of the mossy fountain's sedgy side!

Ye o'er my heart have thrown a lovesome spell;
And though the worldling, scorning, may deride-
I love ye all! '

ROBERT NICOLL

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