The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition

“The Garden God” is emphatically the kind of book to which one must bring a spirit of sympathy, a submission to the tale-teller’s magic spell. The friendship described is as transcendently as that pre-terrestial loveliness whereof the Platonist has fleeting glimpses, and which the Wordsworth-lover is dimly conscious of as having its dwelling in “the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.” Exactly who or what the garden god is, remains a little vague. One thing at least is certain: it is neither Priapus nor Vertumnus. But lest attempted explanation should end only in befogging the question, it shall here be left to ingenious reader. Read more