You come to fetch me from my work to-night
When supper's on the table, and we'll see
If I can leave off burying the white
Soft petals fallen from the apple tree.
(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;)
And go along with you ere you lose sight
Of what you came for and become like me,
Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed
On through the watching for that early birth
When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,
The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.
—Robert Frost, “Putting in the Seed”
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“The Mystery Dramas speak for themselves better than anyone can, even Rudolf Steiner. When Steiner was once asked after a lecture to explain something about the characters in the Mystery Dramas, he replied: 'I do not like at all to comment on or interpret these plays. I myself would be the worst possible interpreter, because I never had any concepts, but rather the living figures themselves before my eyes.'“
(from the Introduction by Richard Ramsbotham)A knowing such as this,
That springs just as it is,
From spirit-worlds,
Can even be of help to one
Who does not understand it.
To anyone, therefore,
Who wants to come and hear
The things I have to say,
The door is open.
I'm well aware that many come
From simple curiosity
And other odd and petty motives.
But even if, for now,
Such people's souls
Are not yet touched and quickened,The good will have been planted
Deep within them,
And will work on in future.
Spoken by "Felix Balde," in Scene Five of The Trial of the Soul, in: Rudolf Steiner, Four Modern Mystery Dramas (CW 14)