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I.

The Garden Etself.

I.

The Garden Itself.

"Lord! all Thy works are lessons, each contains
Some emblem of man's all-containing soul;
Shall he make fruitless all Thy glorious pains,
Delving within Thy grace an eyeless mole?
Make me the least of Thy Dodona-grove,

Cause me some message of Thy truth to bring,
Speak but a word through me, nor let Thy love
Among my boughs disdain to perch and sing."

LOWELL.

"And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden.. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it" (Gen. ii. 8-15). O for a moment's vision of that garden!-planted by His own hands, who beholding all that He had made to be very good, and His fair world yet without sin, could in His holy leisure gather up the choicest of His creations, and group them in a garden, and so hand them over to be the