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Thomas Edward Brown

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 very sure God walks in mine.

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From The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1900 | Clarendon, 1919

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