The Pot of Earth
The Pot of Earth
Archibald
MacLeish
THE POT OF EARTH
THE
POT OF EARTH
by
ARCHIBALD MacLEISH
Author of "The Happy Marriage"
Boston and New York
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1925
COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY ARCHIBALD MacLEISH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
For A.
These [the gardens of Adonis] were baskets or pots filled with earth in which wheat, barley, lettuces, fennel, and various kinds of flowers were sown and tended for eight days, chiefly or exclusively by women. Fostered by the sun’s heat, the plants shot up rapidly, but having no root they withered as rapidly away, and at the end of eight days were carried out with the images of the dead Adonis and flung with them into the sea or into springs.
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| Part I | ||
| The Sowing of the Dead Corn | 1 | |
| Part II | ||
| The Shallow Grass | 24 | |
| Part III | ||
| The Carrion Spring | 39 | |
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