Thursday, April 6, 2017

"My Garden" by Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)

"The fool hath said in his heart, 'There is no God.'" So begins a Psalm of David, Psalm 14, in the King James Version of the Bible. Manx poet, scholar and teacher Thomas Edward Brown, who was also a theologian, was a wise man who believed there is a God. Here is a poem of his about his garden and about God.


MY GARDEN

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
Rose plot,
   Fringed pool,
Ferned grot --
   The veriest school
   Of peace; and yet the fool
Contends that God is not --
Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool?
      Nay, but I have a sign;
      'Tis very sure God walks in mine.



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