If you are a gardener, ( and if not, my deepest sympathies) you will be transported to glory by this piece.
"Independently of romantic rubbish,
however, that old garden had its charms. On summer mornings I used to rise
early, to enjoy them alone; on summer evenings, to linger solitary, to keep
tryst with the rising moon, or taste the kiss of the evening breeze, or fancy
rather than feel the freshness of dew descending. The turf was verdant, the
graveled walks were white; sunbright nasturtiums clustered beautiful about the
roots of the doddered orchard giants. There was a large berceau, above which spread the shade of an acacia; there was a
smaller, more sequestered bower, nestled in the vines which ran all along a
high and grey wall, and gathered their tendrils in a knot of beauty, and hung
their clusters in loving profusion about the favored spot where jasmine and ivy
met and married them." Charlotte Bronte.
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