The Garden

Suddenly revealing the most unexpected of gardens, unreal, infinite and
ineffable, a dream-garden bathed in nocturnal light, where, among stars and
planets, illumining all that they touch, flying ceaselessly from jewel to
jewel and from moonbeam to moonbeam, fairy-like blue birds hover
perpetually and harmoniously down to the confines of the horizon, birds
innumerable to the point of appearing to be the breath, the azured
atmosphere, the very substance of the wonderful garden_.)

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Victorian English poet known for his lyrical verse, classical themes, and controversial subject matter. A major figure of the Aesthetic movement.

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