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From a London garden

Chapter 25: THE WIDER VIEW
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A collected series of lyrical poems moves between urban and rural imagery to reflect on love, mortality, time, memory, and moral growth. The poet uses concise, imagistic language and varied meters to meditate on human experience: longing and loss, pride and humility, the rhythms of city life and quiet country scenes, the passage of days and seasons, death and consolation. Voices range from personal confession to philosophical observation, with elegiac tones, religious reflection, and celebration of steadfastness. Recurring motifs—light and shadow, dawn and evening, gardens and streets—bind individual pieces into a contemplative portrait of inner life amid modern surroundings.

THE WIDER VIEW

Nay, if your friend should prove
A secret foe,
And where you sowed your love
No love should grow;
If when your hope had end,
One smiled thereat,
One promised to befriend
And then forgat—
You may not judge the world by this man or by that.
What though to-day the ways
Are chill with sleet?
The year has many days,
And some are sweet;
And while the world no less
Within its span
Hath still one heart to bless
For two that ban,
You need but lose your faith in men, and not in man.