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Title
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Pearl Council Hiatt, Signage
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Biographical Text
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Stone slab sitting atop a brick pedestal. It is inscribed with a poem written by Hiatt.
The poem is located at the entrance of Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina. Over 450 stone sculptures are located throughout the gardens. Although a poet, Hiatt’s work was memorialized in the garden as she lived in the area.
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Text
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INSCRIPTION FOR A GARDEN GATE
Pause, friend, and read before
you enter here
This vine-clad wall encloses holy ground.
Herein a mellowed garden dreams
and muted sound.
Herein tranquility and peace abide.
For God walks here at cool of
evening-tide.
Pause, friend, and strip from out
your heart.
All vanity, all bitterness, all hate;
Quench, for this hour, softly, pass within
this gate.
There, where the ancient trees wait,
hushed and dim.
May you find God, and walk awhile with him.
Pearl Council Hiatt
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Type
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English
Signage
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Project Researcher
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Bysterbusch, Hailey
