THE PERFUMED GARDEN
DEREK JARMAN -- JOHN PEEL
DEREK JARMAN -- JOHN PEEL
Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us ?
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us ?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run ?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school-boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices ;
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
In that the world's contracted thus ;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere ;
This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere
-- The Sun Rising, John Donne
The Perfumed Garden was the title given by John Peel to his 1967 late-night programme on the British pirate radio station, Radio London.
