A Garden is a lovesome thing,
God wot!
Rose plot,
Fringed pool,
Fern’d grot
The veriest school
Of peace; and yet the fool
Contends that God is not
Not God! In gardens! When the eve is cool?
Nay, but I have a sign;
‘Tis a very sure God walks in mine.
~ Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)