My Garden - Klamath Falls, OR - Etched in Stone on Waymarking.com

Just off Loma Linda Drive, in a very small neighborhood park sits a stone monument with a plaque that reads:

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. -THOMAS EDWARD BROWN- IN LOVING MEMORY... MOTHER & FATHER 2001

Thomas Edward Brown was a Manx Poet, scholar and theologian who lived from 1830 to 1897. The following text is taken from a page from a book written about Brown titled Thomas Edward Brown, the Manx poet : an appreciation that reads:

GOD AS PORTRAYED IN BROWN'S POEMS. 213

His wish for the "outer sea" is typical of his
poetry. We get the idea that he always wrote
out of doors, so breezy and fresh are his verses.
Great forces attracted him. The illimitable sea,
the generating- sun, forgiveness and love. He
knew the sea like a personal friend realizing all
its passions and petulancies. His poems are full
of wonderful hints of it, aspirations for it, and
lessons to be learned from it.

GOD AS PORTRAYED IN BROWN'S POEMS.

It is in his poems which speak of God that
Brown's highest thoughts are to be discovered. It
may be stated at the outstart that Brown was a
Pantheist. He realized much more fully than many
Church of England clergymen would care to do that
God was everywhere. He expresses this belief in
"My Garden":

" My 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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