# Endnotes explained — Poetry

> Chapter companion for Poetry by George MacDonald.

## What happens

The endnotes section includes a poem about two lovers in a garden, a biblical reference to Proverbs 30:4, and a note about the original publication's blank pages for reader reflections.

## Themes in this chapter

### Love as Ultimate Strength

The poem depicts two lovers reunited in a garden, their love restoring youth and joy despite their tragic separation.

## Key lines

> In a lovely garden walking Two lovers went hand in hand; Two wan, worn figures, talking They sat in the flowery land.

Two pale, weary lovers walk hand in hand through a beautiful garden and sit together among the flowers.

_The poem describes the lovers' tender reunion in a garden setting._

> She lay in the cloister stilly, He far in the dungeon-tower!

She lies still in the convent, while he is imprisoned far away in a tower.

_The lovers are separated by their circumstances, she in a cloister and he in a dungeon._

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