" Its third stanza notes that to carve a mistress's name into a tree is to deface the native beauty of the tree itself.
Charles Lamb misquotes this poem in his essay "The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple," as its fifth stanza actually begins "what wond'rous life in this I lead!" The volta of this poem is the sixth stanza, which sublimates the idea of a symmetrical submarine creation with an internal rhyme in the line "the mind, an ocean where each kind / does straight its own resemblance find / yet it creates, transcending these, / far other worlds, and other seas." The first stanza of this poem delineates the prizes of the martyr, conqueror, and poet  "the palm, the oak, or bays"  but notes that they are inferior to "the garlands of repose." Its third stanza notes that to carve a mistress's name into a tree is to deface the native beauty of the tree itself. This poem's final lines are "how could such sweet and wholesome hours / be reckoned but with herbs and flowers!" For 10 points, name this poem by Andrew Marvell that imagines man as happiest alone in Eden.
Charles Lamb misquotes this poem in his essay "The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple," as its fifth stanza actually begins "what wond'rous life in this I lead!"
"The Garden"