Eden is that old-fashioned House 1
We dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode
Until we drive away.
How fair on looking back, the Day 5
We sauntered from the Door－
Unconscious our returning,
But discover it no more.
We dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode
Until we drive away.
How fair on looking back, the Day 5
We sauntered from the Door－
Unconscious our returning,
But discover it no more.
(F.1734/J.1657)
[1] old fashioned House:: a hint on The House of the Seven Gables (1851) by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Eden:: in the novel, the house is called Eden in chapter twenty The Flower of Eden.
[2] We:: Hepzibah Pyncheon and her brother Clifford (though he was in prison for 30 years).
[4] drive away:: they leave the house after Judge Pyncheon's death and return later.
[8] discover it:: the house was a "dreary home" to them, but "not altogether so dreary" at the end.
THE FLOWER OF EDEN. "A dreary home, Hepzibah! But you have done well to bring me hither! Stay! That parlor-door is open. I cannot pass by it! Let me go and rest me in the arbor, where I used,－oh, very long ago, . . ." But the house was not altogether so dreary as Clifford imagined it. . . . And so the flower of Eden has bloomed, likewise, in this old, darksome house, to-day! ─ The House of the Seven Gables (1851)