In "The Garden of Love," what images do the words from lines 1 and 7 evoke in the reader?

In William Blake's poem, the phrase, "Garden of Love" comes to represent something that brings forth memories of freedom, growth, and life. It is an Eden of sorts that seems to evoke in the speaker a feeling of childlike abandon and vibrancy as described in the fourth line: "Where I used to play on the green."

This evokes the same images of natural abundance and untouched beauty in the reader. As we are lent the image of a large, rigid structure—the Chapel—that's been built in the midst of this untamed garden, the picture of the "garden of love" remains fresh in our minds. This is because the Garden of Love the speaker refers to is a state of purity. It stands for the natural ideal, free from human strictures and institutions. The first utterance (in line 1) is one filled with hope, as the speaker enters with the full memory of its lushness intact. The second utterance (in line 7) is one that, having already seen the obstructive, tightly shut Chapel erected in its midst, has extended from hope to longing. It has lost its earlier innocence, and has been replaced by a deep yearning to return to a time of untouched tenderness, much like love.