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Gardens of the Night, My Delight and Thy Delight

Gardens of the Night Film Review

I just saw the film, Gardens of the Night, and recognized, as the source of its title, this poem by Robert Seymour Bridges. The text of the poem becomes quite ironic, in the context of the film's subject.

My Delight and Thy Delight

My delight and thy delight
Walking, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night:
My desire and thy desire
Twining to a tongue of fire,
Leaping live, and laughing higher;
Thro' the everlasting strife
In the mystery of life.
Love, from whom the world begun,
Hath the secret of the sun.

Love can tell, and love alone,
Whence the million stars were strewn,
Why each atom knows its own,
How, in spite of woe and death,
Gay is life, and sweet is breath :
This he taught us, this we knew,
Happy in his science true,
Hand in hand as we stood
Neath the shadows of the wood,
Heart to heart as we lay
In the dawning of the day.

Harriet Harvey