About The Sheltered Garden Ground

ABOUT the sheltered garden ground

The trees stand strangely still.

The vale ne'er seemed so deep before,

Nor yet so high the hill.

An awful sense of quietness,

A fulness of repose,

Breathes from the dewy garden-lawns,

The silent garden rows.

As the hoof-beats of a troop of horse

Heard far across a plain,

A nearer knowledge of great thoughts

Thrills vaguely through my brain.

I lean my head upon my arm,

My heart's too full to think;

Like the roar of seas, upon my heart

Doth the morning stillness sink.