describing the garden of the world's affairs, in which men strive hard to win crowns of "the palm, the oak, or bays." (Julius Caesar wearing his wreath of beaten-gold laurel leaves comes to mind.) These three trees represent military, civic, and poetic honors, respectively.Yet somehow these efforts are in vain. When our "uncessant" or unceasing labors are directed at one goal and one goal only, we will never see the wood, or rather garden, for the flowering shrubs, topiary, and trees.
from Christopher Nield: The Epoch Times: The Antidote--Classic Poetry for Modern Life: A Reading of 'The Garden' By Andrew Marvell
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