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The garden as a picture

Chapter 2: THIS IS ANOTHER DAY
By Beatrix Farrand
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An extended essay compares garden design to painting and argues that designers must understand plants as a palette, consider light, shade, climate, soil, and national character, and accommodate living-material unpredictability and clients' wishes. It discusses composition principles—color, line, perspective, and texture—and contrasts static art's controlled limitations with the gardener's need to work in real light and changing seasons. It also examines historical influences, travel and photography's effects on imitation, and practical tensions between ideal plans and plant behavior.

THIS IS ANOTHER DAY

By Don Marquis
I am mine own priest, and I shrive myself
Of all my wasted yesterdays. Though sin
And sloth and foolishness, and all ill weeds
Of error, evil, and neglect grow rank
And ugly there, I dare forgive myself
That error, sin, and sloth and foolishness.
God knows that yesterday I played the fool;
God knows that yesterday I played the knave;
But shall I therefore cloud this new dawn o’er
With fog of futile sighs and vain regrets?
This is another day! And flushed Hope walks
Adown the sunward slopes with golden shoon.
This is another day; and its young strength
Is laid upon the quivering hills until,
Like Egypt’s Memnon, they grow quick with song.
This is another day, and the bold world
Leaps up and grasps its light, and laughs, as leapt
Prometheus up and wrenched the fire from Zeus.
This is another day—are its eyes blurred
With maudlin grief for any wasted past?
A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt!
Let dust clasp dust; death, death—I am alive!
And out of all the dust and death of mine
Old selves I dare to lift a singing heart
And living faith; my spirit dares drink deep
Of the red mirth mantling in the cup of morn.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
  1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  2. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.