Page:Of Gardens, Bacon, 1902.djvu/18

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Introduction

measure, and the writing is as fresh to-day, and comes home to all of us as it did of yore. Do you wonder why? Because behind clipt yews, and stately hedges, and covert alleys, Nature holds her sway, and Nature ever plays on the heartstrings of the world.

HELEN MILMAN
(Mrs. Caldwell Crofton)