Page:Of Gardens, Bacon, 1902.djvu/13



''ACON wrote an ideal garden sketch which we as a nation treasure in our store-house of literary gems. It comes after the Essay "Of Building," and is the prince's garden to the prince' s palace which he reared with such consummate art. A lover, longing to beautify a bare patch, turns with a sigh from the rapturous piƈture of thirty acres laid out and planted with no thought of cost; but the last words of the essay bring sweet comfort even to one who revels in the peace and beauty of an acre, for one acre where love''