You have a mantlepiece in your Secret Garden, My Special One? Wonderful! Do small Robins and Hedgehogs and Field Mice perch there? I'll enjoy conversing with them. Maybe you could leave a collection of seeds and leaves and acorns and discarded feathers for me. I'd like that. My Secret Garden is, on the surface of it, very different from yours. The essence is the same.
My song-fragment up there -- "curtains" -- not "shadows". My mind's ancient. Sometimes lapses happen. Off into the Purple distance humming a Purple song.
It was a one-eyed, one horned flyin' purple-people eater...