And thou, "my summer child"[2] (best loved and last to go), born with the roses and gifted with the sunny sweetness of a thousand Junes, but yesterday we trod together these garden paths, whose improvement was thy latest care. The echo of thy parting footfall yet lingers in this garden, making it "holy ground." "They sin who tell us Love can die."
[1] A nickname suggested by this item in a bill of our German cobbler--which ran thus--"To souling shues for _Tird sun_ 50 sense."
The following variant spellings are used in this text:
1) midsummer (3 times) and mid-summer (twice)
2) springtime (once) and spring-time (twice)
The two occasions on which the [oe] ligature is used have been rendered as "oe": "Coboea" and "Ipomoea", both on p. 95.
The following amendments to the text have been made:
1) "remaider" changed to "remainder" on p. 18.
2) "Eastern" changed to "Easter" on p. 43.
3) A double quotation mark (") has been added after "shrine of Thomas à Becket" on p. 55.
4) "Stratford-on Avon" changed to "Stratford-on-Avon" on p. 61.
5) A double quotation mark (") has been deleted before "O E holihoc" on p. 70.
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