Once upon a time there was a garden on a high hill

Standing green and blossoming against the sea

And there the sun came and the rain pourin? down

The garden grew and splattered bits of color on the ground

And it took shape and symmetry of life around

There came wind driven and howling

There came snow and I feared for the garden

So I built a wall and another and roofed it over thick and strong

Kept it from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

But when the sun came and the gentle rain of spring

They could not find the garden behind those walls

It would have died, safely, securely, died

But as I watched and as I learned I tore the walls down

The garden still lives