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(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1895. Excerpt: ... 1 JANUARY 'Life is a road, at either end a gate,
The gate of Life behind--of Death beyond. Love guards the path and
guides us all the way, As through a garden where calm Hope doth
rest.' G. F. Bodlty. January 1894.--At last the white snow sheet is
lifted, and we draw a breath of relief as it were, after the
tension of a long long winter. It was not really long, however, it
only lasted about three weeks or so. And there have been brilliant
sunshines, and early morning splendours were not rare, when the
lawns became wide diamond-fields, as pure and sparkling as winter's
frost could freeze them. Splendours also there have been, of sunset
skies whose glory died not until the utmost remotest glow of green
had faded into grey. Wondrous joys such as these are, must be now
foregone; for they perforce have waned with the frosty nights, and
scarcely a regret goes with them, so happy is the feeling of the
warmer air, and the smell of the grass set free at last from the
ice-king's iron grip. Instantly, upon his departure, little sharp
blades of crocus, with the broader pale green shafts of daffodil
have arisen inches above ground, and ' daisies, pearled Arcturi of
the earth, ' will soon be born among the grass. Even in the gentian
border there appears one poor bell of pinched and sickly blue,
gleaming faintly among its frost-tainted leaves. The first anxious
visit after such severity of frost, is of course paid to the little
clump of Olearia, near the western end of the rockery. A dozen or
so of plants were grown from tiny cuttings, sent from the Isle of
Wight, two years and a half ago. After most tender nursing they
grew into fine young plants, as large as an ordinary lavender bush
of the same age, and were duly planted out. Last summer they were
literally white all ...
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