The Rose-Crowned Land


"From the depths of the green garden-closes
Where the summer in darkness dozes


Till autumn pluck from his hand
An hour-glass that holds not a sand;


From the maze that a flower-belt encloses
To the stones and sea-grass on the strand


How red was the reign of the roses
Over the rose-crowned land!"


The Year of the Rose, Algernon Charles Swinburne


Photos were taken at Government House Gardens, Victoria, British Columbia, July 2019

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