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the ancient bet a farmer makes with the future, paid in dirt.
means The season for sowing seeds, when planting is done in anticipation of a later harvest.
from A plain old compound of Germanic stock — Old English sǣd (seed) joined to tīma (time), the same tīma that gives us our everyday "time." English has long stitched such words together; "seedtime" simply names the planting end of the farming year, often paired with its mirror, harvest, as in the old phrase "seedtime and harvest."
- old word
- Old English saedtid, alive over a thousand years
- cosmic clause
- Genesis promises seedtime will never cease
- opposite
- Its eternal partner is harvest, the payoff
- blake's title
- William Blake used it for prophetic verse
for instance
seedtime and harvest — biblical principle in galatians 6:7, foundational to christian agricultural theology
seedtime order — specific planting schedule used by farmers in temperate zones, typically march-may in northern hemisphere