Temple, William; Sieveking, Albert Forbes: Upon the gardens of Epicurus: with other XVIIth century garden essays (London: Chatto and Windus, 1908)

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THE GARDEN OF CYRUS

with delectable odours ; and though in the bed of
Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the
ghost of a rose.
Night, which Pagan theology could make the
daughter of Chaos, affords no advantage to the descrip-
tion of order; although no lower than that mass can
we derive its genealogy. All things began in order,
so shall they end, and so shall they begin again ;
according to the ordainer of order and mystical
mathematicks of the city of heaven.
Though Somnus in Homer be sent to rouse up
Agamemnon, I find no such effects in these drowsy
approaches of sleep. To keep our eyes open longer,
were but to act our Antipodes. The huntsmen are up
in America, and they are already past their first sleep
in Persia. But who can be drowsy at that hour which
freed us from everlasting sleep ? or have slumbering
thoughts at that time, when sleep itself must end, and
as some conjecture all shall awake again.