all-palpitating

Updated: May 3, 2025

Whenever seed is thus returned to nature's bosom all-palpitating as it is with life whether it quickens or not, it dies; and there is no resurrection for dead seed from the earth, any more than there is for the occupants of the exhumed mummy-cases of ancient Thebes.

Horatius Flaccus - Life: Its True Genesis