Abstract
In the first of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, ‘Burnt Norton,' appear the following lines: Quick, said the bird, find them, find them,Round the corner. Through the first gate,Into our first world, shall we followThe deception of the thrush? Into our first world.……………Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,Hidden excitedly, containing laughter.Eliot returns to the image of the garden and the children in the last of this cycle, ‘Little Gidding‘: Through the unknown, remembered gateWhen the last of earth left to discoverIs that which was the beginning;At the source of the longest riverThe voice of the hidden waterfallAnd the children in the apple-treeNot known, because not looked forBut heard, half heard, in the stillness…All manner of thing shall be wellWhen the tongues of flame are in-foldedInto the crowned knot of fireAnd the fire and the rose are one.
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