“I had more pleasure in strolling about among the old melancholy-looking yew trees, or the firs, and picking up the red berries, and the fir apples, which were good for nothing but to look at—or in lying about upon the fresh grass, with all the fine garden smells around me—or basking in the orangery.”—Explain.

👉 These lines are extracted from Charles Lamb's autobiographical and romantic essay Dream Children. Lamb here describes the garden of the Norfolk mansion to his dream children. He loved to loiter around the fruit trees and with overwhelming joy he used to unfold his arms at its full length upon the green and soft grass. His sense of smell was regaled and soothed by the pleasant fragrances that hovered all around the garden. The orangery provided him comfort and warmth and he felt himself developing and ripening like oranges. He felt the same pleasure and happiness that the oranges experience in the artificial heat of the glass roofed house where oranges ripen.

Lamb's soul identified himself with the sights and sounds of the eternal beauties of nature. He could float with the breeze of nature as well as still with the marble statues. These qualities intermingle in his thinking and he identified himself with Keats's sparrow picking about the gravel path.