THAT Garden of sedate Philosophy Once flourished, fenced from passion and mishap, A shining spot upon a shaggy map; Where mind and body, in fair junction free, Luted their joyful concord; like the tree From root to flowering twigs a flowing sap. Clear Wisdom found in tended Nature's lap Of gentlemen the happy nursery. That Garden would on light supremest verge, Were the long drawing of an equal breath Healthful for Wisdom's head, her heart, her aims. Our world which for its Babels wants a scourge, And for its wilds a husbandman, acclaims The crucifix that came of Nazareth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE TWO MYSTERIES by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE ECHOES: 4. INVICTUS by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY THE LAY OF THE LOVER'S FRIEND by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN L'AMOUR DU MENSONGE by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE THE DESCENT OF TIMOTHY by JAMES HAY BEATTIE |