"Here also, however, we may take the speechful vows, not
to the antique order of the dead, but to the antique order of the living. To
gardens gravitate as by a natural impulse all true lovers. Beneath the canopy
of their leafy bowers vows have been exchanged and troths plighted which have
meant all that life holds for mortals. The Garden of Peace of the present is
the Garden of Love of the Past. Memory pauses to live again its youth's
happiness and its youth's passion; and the landscape takes on anew the radiance
of the glory of bygone days."
-- Temple Scott, from "In Praise of Gardens",
1910
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