I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing, At morn the cherry-blooms will be white, And the Easter bells be ringing!

In these lines Proctor turns a simple natural image—"the garden after the rain"—into a figure for emotional recovery. Rain suggests a period of sorrow, trial, or spiritual darkness; the garden that follows implies renewal and the return of order and beauty. The speaker’s hope is not abstract but sensory and time-bound: morning will bring white cherry blossoms and the sound of Easter bells. By invoking Easter, the poem links personal consolation to a larger Christian rhythm of death and resurrection, grief and restoration. The movement from wet aftermath to bright morning enacts a quiet faith that what feels ruined can, with time, become newly radiant.