The Garden of Cyrus

or, The Quincunx - quoted in Artemis Cooper's excellent biography of Patrick Leigh-Fermor which has been entertaining me this past week. He picked a passage for his funeral service. It begins "But the Quincunx of Heaven runs low, and 'tis time to close the five ports of knowledge," and goes on later "All things begin in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mysticall Mathematicks of the City of Heaven."

Pleasing to have my father's edition of this, and Urne Buriall, to refer to.