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The happy garden (1912)

Ansell, Mary · London, New York [etc.] Cassell & co., ltd. · leaf 104

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lmost, one is afraid to enter the littlegrassy avenue. Such purity is there ! It is a placefor children, and young lovers, boy and girl, melt-ing under the sweet burden of their love, stealingshy glances, sighing, thinking all the loveliness ofheaven and earth is in themselves, and so big with it… … A thousand ofpleasant delights^are in an orchard tam/awson IV The Orchard I AM willing to stretch a point and swear that thenightingale sings in the orchard all through theseason, though I am afraid he gave his farewellperformance long ago. I have only once heardhim, and then he was a good quarter…

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