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Excerpt from In Praise of Gardens
A garden is also eloquent to the ear, for it is the home of song-birds. Here come and nest the happy people of the sky, accompanying, with their vocal music, the thoughts and emotions which the garden, by its silence, breathes into us. They pipe their lays to our mood either of morn ing exultation or of evening's meditation. The mystery is that they come upon us not as in truders or disturbers in this retreat of quietude, but rather as companions in labor or as friends in sympathy. I know no more joyous encourager to effort than the lark's song falling down from a brilliant summer evening's sky; and I know of no more deeply touching sense of kinship with nature than that Which comes over us with the parting trills of the thrush on some golden.
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