Explanation:

All its allotted length of days,

The flower ripens in its place,

Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil,

Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.”

Answer: These lines have been gleaned from the choric song of Alfred Tennyson’s poem “The Lotos Eaters”. Here the sailors observe the peaceful course of nature and contrast it with the course of human life.

After reaching the lotos island and eating lotos fruits, the mariners were fascinated by the calm and quiet atmosphere of the island. Now they realize that every object has a natural course. The leaf sprouts and grows, being caressed by the winds. It has to make no efforts of its own to develop and mature. Rather it is aided by the sun, the moon, and the nightly dew. Then it grows yellow and, after passing its allotted time, dies out of a natural process. This same process is applicable to apples, which also take no effort to grow and rip. In nature, everything has its natural course and fixed place. Unlike, human beings, they do not have to struggle and move from one place to another. Thus, along these lines, the mariners tend to compare their own life to the carefree life of natural objects