Gärten von Prominenten und berühmten Gärten in und um London. elp torealize es; oder, was wahrscheinlicher ist, er hat eine Vision von Utility und, wie von den Eichen, Evelyn gepflanzt aufgebaut wurden, um die shipsin, die Nelson gekämpft, er ist zufrieden mit dem Wissen, dass thetimber von seinem Baum für unzählige Zwecke benötigt werden, whenhe selbst hat den Weg allen Fleisches gegangen. Es ist ein Akt des Glaubens und des Patriotismus, nicht unwürdig Vergleich - obwohl die Selbstaufopferung und die Risiken sind unendlich weniger mit dem Glauben inder Zukunft, die Hingabe an den Enden kann er nicht leben, um zu sehen, Con-aufsummiert, Der

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Gardens of celebrities and celebrated gardens in and around London . elp torealize it; or, more probably, he has a vision of utility, and, just as from the oaks that Evelyn planted were built the shipsin which Nelson fought, he is content with the knowledge that thetimber of his tree will be required for purposes innumerable, whenhe himself has gone the way of all flesh. It is an act of faith andof patriotism, not unworthy of comparison—though the self-sacrifice and the risks are immeasurably less—with the faith inthe future, the devotion to ends that he may not live to see con-summated, of the civilian who voluntarily enters the ranks of anarmy, offering his life to his country—^to England, to France, toBelgium, in order that, though he die, she may continue to live.* It is the spirit of the old-time builder. Someone who dreamta cathedral, and then planned it; who saw the work well begunand then, silently passed. The cathedral took three, four, even * This was written at the beginning of the great war, long before conscription was thought of. 112. SION five hundred years to build ; generation after generation helpedto evolve the idea of that first builder, whose very name probablyhas passed into oblivion ! The sculptor, and the carver in oak, and the designer of stained glass, each in turn threw himself self-lessly into the work, raising for others the carved columns, thecurious gargoyles; decorating the fagade of the great buildingwith the sculptured figures of saint and martyr, carving the oakenscreen, the stalls and the pulpit, filling the tall windows with jewelledglass—and all this unostentatiously, each one doing, without fussor sense of special merit, his appointed task—each man literally doing his bit, and doing it well, because he loved it ! They hadfaith in God, those old artists, and their labour was part of theirreligion, and therefore do their works live after them, thoughthey themselves have long been dust, and many are forgotten. It follows t

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