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Gibbings, Robert - Wisley
Identifier
013218
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Gibbings - poster for Wisley gadens
Austin Dobson – A Garden Song
Here, in this sequestered close
Bloom the hyacinth, the rose
Here beside the modest stock
Flaunts the flaring hollyhock
Here as everywhere, one sees
Ranks, conditions and degrees
All the seasons run their race
In this quiet resting place;
Peach, and apricot and fig
Here will ripen and grow big
Here is store and overplus
More had not Alcinous!
Here, in alleys cool and green,
Far ahead the thrush is seen;
Here along the southern wall
Keeps the bee his festival
All is quiet else – afar
Sounds of toil and turmoil are.
Here be shadows large and long
Here be spaces meet for song
Grant, o garden god, that I
Now that mood and moment please
Find the fair Pierides!