The Bean-Field
t amount or ney of it, along the road.
Our ambassadors sructed to send home such seeds as
to distribute the land. e
sand upon ceremony y. e should never
c and insult and banishere
t
meet te. Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem
not to ime; t t
deal hus plodding ever, leaning on a hoe or a spade as a
staff betially risen out
of t, like sed and
he ground:--
quot;And as hen
Spread, as to fly, t;
so t we migh an angel.
Bread may not al al even
takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant,
o recognize any generosity in man
or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy.
Ancient poetry and myt, at least, t husbandry
; but it is pursued e and
being to have large farms and large
crops merely. e ival, nor procession, nor ceremony,
not excepting our cattle-shanksgivings, by which
the sacredness of his calling, or is
reminded of its sacred origin. It is t
to Ceres and terrestrial
Jove, but to tus rather. By avarice and
selfis, from which none of us is free,
of regarding ty, or the means of acquiring
property che landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded
of lives. ure
but as a robber. Cato says t ts of agriculture are
particularly pious or just (maximeque pius quaestus), and according
to Varro t;called ther and