Our Sentimental Garden

Our Sentimental Garden

Never was trifling chronicle begun so light-heartedly as this chatty, idly reminiscent book of oursand now it is under the great shadow of war, of death and suffering, that we see it pass into its final shape! The little paradise on the hill, with all its innocent pleasures, its everyday joys and cares; with the antics of the little furry things at play, the sayings and doings of the famiglia; the roses, the bulbs and seedlings; our alluring garden plans, our small despairs and unexpected blissesour earthly paradise, as we have said, seems like an unreal place. We wander through it with spirit ill at ease; oppressed, as by a curse, through no fault of ours. The sight of an Autumn Catalogue (hitherto so tempting, so full of promised joys) evokes only a sigh. The offer, from the familiar Dutchman, of bulbs which it will help Belgium if we buy, turns the heart sick. We know we must not buy bulbs, this year, because we shall have to buy breadbread for those who will surely lack itand yet, if we do not buy, others in their turn must needs go wanting. And here is but the merest drop in the monstrous tide of evils wantonly let loose upon humanity by the self-styled Attila! There are times when, looking out upon our place of peace, we feel as though, surely, we must all be lost in some fantastic nightmare. It is a September full of golden sunshine; as this night falls, a benign, placid moon rises over the silent moors into a sky the colour of spun-glass. The breeze choirs softly through the boughs of scented Larch and Birch. All is beauty, harmonywhile in those fields yonder, south of the sea, the Huns.... Pray God, by the time the Spring begins to stir shyly once more in our copses; what time the Crocus pushes forth its little tender flame, and the Snowdrop (with us fugitive and reluctant) bends its timorous head under our hill-top winds, we may indeed look back upon these days as upon some dreadful dream! ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 51779
Author: Castle, Agnes
Release Date: Apr 17, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Castle, Egerton, 1858-1920

Illustrator: Robinson, Charles, 1870-1937