lirik lagu robert newton - the garden
how vainly men themselves amaze
to win the palm, the oak, or bays
and their uncessant labours see
crown’d from some single herb or tree
whose short and narrow verged shade
does prudently their toils upbraid;
while all flow’rs and all trees do close
to weave the garlands of repose
fair quiet, have i found thee here
and innocence, thy sister dear!
mistaken long, i sought you then
in busy companies of men;
your sacred plants, if here below
only among the plants will grow
society is all but rude
to this delicious solitude
no white nor red was ever seen
so am’rous as this lovely green
fond lovers, cruel as their flame
cut in these trees their mistress’ name;
little, alas, they know or heed
how far these beauties hers exceed!
fair trees! wheres’e’er your barks i wound
no name shall but your own be found
when we have run our passion’s heat
love hither makes his best retreat
the gods, that mortal beauty chase
still in a tree did end their race:
apollo hunted daphne so
only that she might laurel grow;
and pan did after syrinx speed
not as a nymph, but for a reed
what wond’rous life in this i lead!
ripe apples drop about my head;
the luscious cl~sters of the vine
upon my mouth do crush their wine;
the nectarine and curious peach
into my hands themselves do reach;
stumbling on melons as i pass
ensnar’d with flow’rs, i fall on grass
meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less
withdraws into its happiness;
the mind, that ocean where each kind
does straight its own resemblance find
yet it creates, transcending these
far other worlds, and other seas;
annihilating all that’s made
to a green thought in a green shade
here at the fountain’s sliding foot
or at some fruit tree’s mossy root
casting the body’s vest aside
my soul into the boughs does glide;
there like a bird it sits and sings
then whets, and combs its silver wings;
and, till prepar’d for longer flight
waves in its plumes the various light
such was that happy garden~state
while man there walk’d without a mate;
after a place so pure and sweet
what other help could yet be meet!
but ’twas beyond a mortal’s share
to wander solitary there:
two paradises ’twere in one
to live in paradise alone
how well the sk!llful gard’ner drew
of flow’rs and herbs this dial new
where from above the milder sun
does through a fragrant zodiac run;
and as it works, th’ industrious bee
computes its time as well as we
how could such sweet and wholesome hours
be reckon’d but with herbs and flow’rs!
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