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Open The Secret Garden

Posted Feb 9, 2011

A lush paradise illuminated by beauty, the story of opening our inner-self to the corners of our memories. Poetic and exuberant, the doors opening the garden you have engraved in your imagination. Literature speaks…

Let yourself in:

When I had pushed the narrow garden-door,

Once more I stood within the green retreat;

Softly the morning sunshine lighted it,

And every flower a humid spangle wore./

Nothing is changed. I see it all once more:

The vine-clad arbor with its rustic seat. . . .

The waterjet still splashes silver sweet,

The ancient aspen rustles as of yore.

The roses throb as in a bygone day,

As they were wont, the tall proud lilies sway.

Each bird that lights and twitters is a friend.

I even found the Flora standing yet,

Whose plaster crumbles at the alley’s end,

—Slim, ’mid the foolish scent of mignonette.

Paul Verlaine

 

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I went to the Garden of Love.

And saw what I never had seen:

A Chapel was built in the midst,

Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,

And Thou shalt not, writ over the door;

So I turn’d to the Garden of Love,

That so many sweet flowers bore, (...)

The Garden Of Love

William Blake 

 

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Along the edge of the garden

Walk the little girls.

Their hats, round and yellow like cheeses,

Are dangling by the ribbons.

The grass is a tumult of buttercups and daisies;

Buttercups and daisies streaming away

Up the hill.

The garden is purple, and pink, and orange, and scarlet;

The garden is hot with colours.

But the meadow is only yellow, and white, and green,

Cool, and long, and quiet.

Amy Lowell, Garden Games 

 

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Illustration by Yuri Ahn.

Source: Dolce&Gabbana Makeup

The New Secret Garden Collection is in stores starting February 2011. 

 

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