When I count the seeds 1
That are sown beneath,
To bloom so, bye and bye－
When I con the people 4
Lain so low,
To be received as high－
When I believe the garden 7
Mortal shall not see－
Pick by faith its blossom
And avoid its Bee,
I can spare this summer, unreluctantly.
That are sown beneath,
To bloom so, bye and bye－
When I con the people 4
Lain so low,
To be received as high－
When I believe the garden 7
Mortal shall not see－
Pick by faith its blossom
And avoid its Bee,
I can spare this summer, unreluctantly.
(F.51/J.40)
[1–3] I, sown:: a self-sufficient life.
[7] the garden:: the school of Epicurus set up in Epicurus' garden. Epicurus was a Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of Epicurus called "The Garden."
[10] Bee:: diligence as a bee.
Hence the Epicureans are entitled the Philosophers of the Garden, in which the disciples all lived in common with their master, each contributing, according to his means and inclination, to the frugal support of the whole. . . . It is impossible to supply a due notion of the system of Epicurus, in a brief article of this nature; but it may suffice to say, that he deemed philosophy the cxcrcise of reason in the pursuit and attainment of a happy life, and maintained that the end of all speculation ought to be to enable men to judge with certainty what is to be chosen and what avoided to secure health of body and tranquillity of mind. ─ A General Biographical Dictionary (1838)
and this kind of reaction it was that now mainly contributed to render the doctrines of the Garden the most fashionable philosophy of the day. ─ The Epicurean By Thomas Moore (1839)
