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-Title: Fables of Flowers for the Female Sex
-       With Zephyrus and Flora, a Vision
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-                       FABLES
-                         OF
-                      FLOWERS,
-                         FOR
-                   THE FEMALE SEX.
-                        WITH
-                 ZEPHYRUS AND FLORA,
-                      A VISION.
-
-            WRITTEN FOR THE AMUSEMENT OF
-           HER HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS ROYAL
-
-    BY THE AUTHOR OF THE CHOICE EMBLEMS, &C. &C.
-
-                                   NATURE here
-     Wantons as in her prime, and plays at will
-     Her virgin fancies.
-                                    MILTON.
-
-                       LONDON:
-        PRINTED FOR GEORGE RILEY, BOOKSELLER,
-             IN CURZON-STREET, MAY-FAIR.
-
-                     AND SOLD BY
-        JOHN WILKIE, ST. PAUL’S-CHURCH-YARD.
-                     MDCCLXXIII.
-
-
-
-
-       TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
-        LADY CHARLOTTE FINCH.
-
-          THESE NEW FABLES
-      WRITTEN FOR THE AMUSEMENT
-                 OF
-            HER HIGHNESS,
-
-             CHARLOTTE,
-     PRINCESS ROYAL OF ENGLAND.
-
-    ARE MOST HUMBLY DEDICATED BY
-      HER LADYSHIP’S
-         MOST HUMBLE
-            AND OBEDIENT SERVANT,
-
-                            THE AUTHOR.
-
-
-
-
-PREFACE.
-
-
-When I survey the divine simplicity and blooming attractions, that are
-displayed amongst the variegated tribes of the vegetable creation, I
-cease to wonder, that _Queens forego, for a while, the compliments of
-a nation, or withdraw from the glitter of a_ COURT, _to be attended
-with the more splendid_ EQUIPAGE _of a_ BED _of_ FLOWERS; where nothing
-seems wanting but the power of _speech_, to make them become the most
-pleasing Monitors.
-
-How far the Author of the following Fables, written for the amusement
-of an exalted Personage, may have succeeded, in descriptive fancy, as
-a poet: it is hoped, that, the moral and refined admonitions which may
-be found to breathe, from the fragrant bosom of a silver-robed Lily, or
-a blooming Jonquil, will throw a veil over any poetical inaccuracies;
-_for who can paint like Nature?_
-
-As to the novelty of the plan, I cannot but hold myself, in a great
-measure, indebted to an ingenious Lady[1], well known in the literary
-world. And can only say, that I have found both health and recreation
-in the completion of it; by sharing some of the sweetest hours of
-contemplation, among the lovely subjects of the following pages.
-
-    THE AUTHOR.
-
-[1] The author of The Vizlis: or Enchanted Labyrinth; an Oriental
-Tale, 3 Vols.—Wherein describes with great taste and fancy, the
-different passions that are subject to misguide the warm and expanded
-imagination, of Youth by the Flowers they make choice of in the
-Labyrinth.
-
-
-
-
-TABLE OF CONTENTS.
-
-
-                                              Page.
-
-    ZEPHYRUS and FLORA                           1
-
-                      FABLE I.
-    The Hollyhock and Lily of the Vale          24
-
-                         II.
-    The Aloe in Blossom                         31
-
-                         III.
-    The Rose and Hornet                         37
-
-                          IV.
-    The Sensitive Plant                         42
-
-                           V.
-    The Hawthorn and the Primrose               47
-
-                          VI.
-    The White Rose and the Red                  53
-
-                          VII.
-    The Crocus                                  59
-
-                         VIII.
-    The Anemone and the Passion Flower          64
-
-                           IX.
-    The Lily and Narcissus                      69
-
-                            X.
-    The Ivy and Sweet Briar                     73
-
-                           XI.
-    The Violet Transplanted                     77
-
-                           XII.
-    The Tulip and the Amaranth                  81
-
-                          XIII.
-    The Honey Succkle and Youth                 87
-
-                           XIV.
-    Belinda and the Blue-Bell                   92
-
-                            XV.
-    The Larkspur and the Myrtle                 97
-
-                           XVI.
-    The Poppy and the Sun-Flower               102
-
-                          XVII.
-    The Iris and the Rose                      109
-
-                          XVIII.
-    The Nasturtium and the Wall Flower         113
-
-                           XIX.
-    The Traveller and Lapland Rose             119
-
-                            XX.
-    The Deadly Night Shade                     124
-
-                           XXI.
-    The Crown Imperial and Hearts Ease         129
-
-                          XXII.
-    The Water Lily                             133
-
-                          XXIII.
-    The Funeral Flowers and the Lover          137
-
-                          XXIV.
-    The Field and Garden Daisy                 142
-
-                          XXV.
-    The Pinks and Arbutus                      147
-
-                          XXVI.
-    The Cockscomb and Sweet William            153
-
-                         XXVII.
-    The Jasmine and Hemlock                    157
-
-                         XXVIII.
-    The Carnation and Southernwood             161
-
-                          XXIX.
-    The Rosemary and Field Flower              165
-
-                           XXX.
-    The Judgment of the Flowers                169
-
-
-
-
-ZEPHYRUS AND FLORA: A VISION.
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-I.
-
-    As late I wander’d o’er the flow’ry plain,
-      Where Cambrian Cluyd pours his silver tide,
-    Amidst the pleasures of fair Plenty’s reign,
-      And blushing flow’rs and fruits on ev’ry side:
-
-
-II.
-
-    Soft sigh’d the west winds, murm’ring o’er the dale,
-      Whose ev’ry charm rose fresher from the breeze;
-    The lofty hills more boldly kiss’d the gale,
-      Which skimm’d their tops, and shook the wavy trees.
-
-
-III.
-
-    The sun descending, shot his golden beams
-      Askance, with many a cloud his ev’ning throne
-    Adorn’d; while mountains, woods, and lucent streams,
-      With the last blushes of his radiance shone.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    Far stretching hence, Cambria’s rough heights I view,
-      Where Liberty long since forlorn retir’d,
-    Left fairer climes, and skies of brighter hue,
-      And, but at last, triumphantly expir’d:
-
-
-V.
-
-    And wide around me wound the fertile vale[2],
-      Fit theme and subject of the poet’s song;
-    Whose num’rous beauties load the passing gale,
-      Whose breath repeats them, as it glides along.
-
-[2] The Vale of Cluyd.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    Bright Phœbus sunk, dim twilight now succeeds,
-      Still gleaming dubious with uncertain ray,
-    While tremblingly among the vocal reeds
-      The ev’ning breezes still more faintly play.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    Amid this beauteous, soft, and flow’ry scene,
-      On a high bank, all listless, I reclin’d;
-    Whose shelving sides were crown’d with lively green,
-      By tufted trees and bord’ring flow’rs confin’d.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    Here, while the landscape faded on my sight,
-      Wild Fancy’s eye still brighter scenes supply’d;
-    I view’d not the last track of parting light,
-      Nor mark’d the fanning breezes as they dy’d.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    At length, Imagination, roving maid,
-      Though gentle sleep had fetter’d all my pow’rs
-    In golden chains, my busy soul convey’d
-      To other landscapes and immortal bow’rs.
-
-
-X.
-
-    Methought I stood amidst a garden fair,
-      Whose bounds no sight of mortal eye could trace,
-    Situate mid-way, betwixt earth, seas, and air,
-      Unmark’d by Time, uncircumscrib’d by Space.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    Not half so sweet was that delightsome dale,
-      Which to my waking view appear’d so bright;
-    For _here_ did never-ceasing suns prevail,
-      With mildest sweetness temp’ring heav’nly light.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    Spring breath’d eternal glories o’er the land:
-      And gentlest winds, o’er fragrant lawns that blow,
-    Nurs’d beauteous buds unset by mortal hand,
-      And op’ning flow’rs that without planting grow.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    Serene the heav’ns, save where a cloudy shrine,
-      Big with cœlestial plenty, sail’d on high,
-    Show’r’d Spring’s own roses from her seat divine,
-      And drew a purple radiance o’er the sky.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    Meanwhile, soft music echoing from each grove,
-      Tun’d to enchanting notes most soft and clear,
-    That breath’d the soul of harmony and love,
-      Thrill’d the rapt breast, and charm’d the list’ning ear.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    And still the while, with voices loud and sweet,
-      The warbling birds in dulcet concert join’d,
-    The waters murm’ring flow with cadence meet,
-      “Low answer’d by the gently whisp’ring wind.”
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    These themes of wonder silent I survey’d,
-      Attentive hanging on each dying sound;
-    Pleas’d with the glories which I saw display’d,
-      And scenes of joy and pleasure op’ning round.
-
-
-XVII.
-
-    Yet still methought a certain want appear’d,
-      Of some to own this spot, so heav’nly fair,
-    Else were each charming flow’ret vainly rear’d,
-      “To bloom unnotic’d to the desart air:”
-
-
-XVIII.
-
-    Else, were in vain these soft melodious strains,
-      Which the whole soul of harmony inspir’d,
-    Pour’d to the wild woods and the lonely plains,
-      Though worthiest still by all to be admir’d.
-
-
-XIX.
-
-    Such were creation’s first imperfect hours,
-      When the gay heav’ns in early beauty shone,
-    And earth, bedeck’d with beasts, birds, plants, and flow’rs,
-      Spread all her bosom to the genial sun;
-
-
-XX.
-
-    Unfinish’d still the mighty work appear’d,
-      Till Man, the lord of all, was bid to rise;
-    With open brow his face divine who rear’d,
-      And sought with upright look his native skies.
-
-
-XXI.
-
-    Thus as I paus’d, still louder swell’d the notes,
-      From ev’ry bush, and brake, and echoing hill;
-    While choirs cœlestial seem’d to tune their throats,
-      And, with glad voice the chearful chorus fill.
-
-
-XXII.
-
-    Then, by some magic pow’r swift snatch’d away,
-      Ev’n to the midst of that delightful land,
-    I view’d at once all clad in bright array,
-      A thousand Genii of the gardens stand.
-
-
-XXIII.
-
-    But far above all these a seat was plac’d,
-      Dress’d with each flow’r that ev’ry season knows,
-    Whose vary’d tints, in gem-like order, grac’d
-      The rural theatre which gradual rose.
-
-
-XXIV.
-
-    For lo! the Genius of each blooming flow’r
-      Brought his own fav’rite with peculiar care,
-    To deck the arch of this inchanted bow’r,
-      And, bowing at the throne, he plac’d it there.
-
-
-XXV.
-
-    A sight more beauteous ne’er did eye behold,
-      Than these bright tribes that glitter’d on the day;
-    And, rich in purple dyes and flaming gold,
-      Did their bright bosoms to the sun display.
-
-
-XXVI.
-
-    Such was the throne;—but oh! what pen can trace
-      The heav’nly beauties of the matchless Two,
-    Who, glowing with each bright cœlestial grace,
-      Sat there aloft, conspicuous to the view!
-
-
-XXVII.
-
-    The first, a youth of sweet and gentle mien,
-      With many a wreath and knotted garland crown’d;
-    Whose beauteous visage glow’d with charms serene,
-      And on whose shoulders purple wings were bound:
-
-
-XXVIII.
-
-    These when he spreads, reviving Nature pours
-      Her copious treasures of immortal bloom;
-    Whilst through vast realms he scatters vernal stores,
-      And from his downy pinions shakes perfume.
-
-
-XXIX.
-
-    His name was ZEPHYRUS; and next him sat
-      The beauteous goddess of the blooming year,
-    The constant partner of his rural state,
-      To heav’n and earth, to gods and mortals dear;
-
-
-XXX.
-
-    FLORA, bright pow’r, who sheds a thousand sweets
-      O’er thousand lands, what time her gifts appear,
-    What time her consort with his kisses greets
-      Her coral lips, and wakes the rising year.
-
-
-XXXI.
-
-    Her beauteous face was deck’d with youthful pride,
-      Her graceful form in flamy robes was dress’d;
-    And ev’ry charm wild Nature could provide,
-      Adorn’d her head, and beam’d upon her breast.
-
-
-XXXII.
-
-    Beside the throne, rang’d in fair order, stood
-      The various Seasons of the rolling year;
-    By all their train of months, weeks, days, pursu’d:
-      And all their various symbols flourish’d here.
-
-
-XXXIII.
-
-    First came the SPRING, led by the rosy Hours,
-      With all the Loves and Graces in her train;
-    Deck’d with her wreath of never-fading flow’rs,
-      Diffusing odours o’er the smiling plain.
-
-
-XXXIV.
-
-    Next SUMMER came; his cheeks with ardour fir’d,
-      With his own blushing fruits and harvests crown’d;
-    Before whose face the infant Spring retir’d,
-      And with her roses strew’d the russet ground.
-
-
-XXXV.
-
-    Stain’d with the grape’s press’d juice, with steadier pace,
-      Still looking backward on preceding time,
-    Ripe AUTUMN next succeeded in his place;
-      Scatt’ring rich fruits, the growth of ev’ry clime.
-
-
-XXXVI.
-
-    Last WINTER comes, with heavy step and flow,
-      A hoary captive bound in icy chains;
-    With haggard eyes, and mantle dipp’d in snow,
-      Who still of cold in Spring’s own realms complains.
-
-
-XXXVII.
-
-    Not one of these, but from their various store
-      Some off’ring meet to lovely Flora pay;
-    Not one of these, but with that off’ring more,
-      And her soft reign most willingly obey.
-
-
-XXXVIII.
-
-    Ev’n WINTER’S self, with look averted, throws,
-      His thin-strewn flow’rets on the goddess’ shrine;
-    Ev’n _his_ cold bosom for a moment glows,
-      When he beholds her radiant form divine.
-
-
-XXXIX.
-
-    But now the Genii of each plant and flow’r,
-      Rang’d in fair order, wait her high commands;
-    And each, approaching her delicious bow’r,
-      In expectation of her verdict stands.
-
-
-XL.
-
-    For many of the _garden’s_ painted race,
-      And some that with their colours deck the _field_,
-    Rivals in wealth, in beauty, and in grace,
-      Had wag’d high wars, unknowing how to yield.
-
-
-XLI.
-
-    All claim’d preferment, and each one could boast
-      Of some bright beauty or perfection dear,
-    Which should induce mankind to prize _her_ most,
-      And to preferment make her title clear.
-
-
-XLII.
-
-    And some, of empty shew and titles vain;
-      Alas! that Pride so many should deceive!
-    Claim’d o’er their kindred plants and flow’rs to reign:
-      And of their birthright others would bereave.
-
-
-XLIII.
-
-    The Crown Imperial, and the spurious Flow’r
-      Which boasts of royal arms and royal mien[3];
-    The warlike Plant that claims immortal pow’r[4],
-      And that gay lady call’d the Meadow’s Queen.
-
-
-XLIV.
-
-    All these, and more, that scorn’d a subject state,
-      Rose to the claim of high imperial sway:
-    Forgetting—to be _good_ was to be _great_—
-      They rose to rule, unpractis’d to obey.
-
-
-XLV.
-
-    Others again for _beauty’s_ meed contend,
-      Chief amidst whom appear’d the Tulip race;
-    A painted tribe, born only to contend
-      For praise, where _all_ is giv’n external grace.
-
-
-XLVI.
-
-    Alcæa proud[5]; and lovely Venus’ joy,
-      That does from adverse winds its title claim[6];
-    The once conceited, self-admiring Boy[7],
-      Whose love prepost’rous gave a flow’r a name.
-
-[3] Iris, or Fleur de lis.
-
-[4] Larkspur.
-
-[5] The Hollyhock.
-
-[6] Anemone, or Wind Flower.
-
-[7] Narcissus.
-
-
-XLVII.
-
-    The proud Carnation dipp’d in brightest dyes,
-      Who still with thirst of praise and glory burns;
-    With her whose mirrour cheats deluded eyes[8],
-      And she that still to her lov’d Phœbus turns[9].
-
-
-XLVIII.
-
-    There, with their num’rous chiefs of diff’rent hues,
-      The painted Cock’s Comb, and his lofty train,
-    Their beauties vaunting, to the rest refuse
-      To share the glories of their gaudy reign.—
-
-
-XLIX.
-
-    The judges sat, each sep’rate claim was heard,
-      While some for _rule_, and some for _praises_, sought;
-    And some had been disgrac’d, and some preferr’d,
-      As in the goddess’ mind their various pleadings wrought
-
-
-L.
-
-    But her lov’d consort, gently whisp’ring, said:
-      “What means my Queen, on these to cast her sight,
-    Who have but pride or lust of sway display’d,
-      Nor brought their real worth or virtues to the light?”
-
-[8] Bell Flower, Corn Violet, or Venus’s Looking-Glass.
-
-[9] Clytie, or the Sun-Flower.
-
-
-LI.
-
-    How many absent now, more fair than these,
-      With greater fragrance in lone valleys blow?
-    Or, if the garden’s flow’ry tribe more please,
-      Where do the Rose and lovely Vi’let glow?
-
-
-LII.
-
-    The Lily where, and all that num’rous host,
-      Who claim true praise to innate virtue due;
-    Or do they _merit least_ who _loudest boast_,
-      And with false glare impose upon the view?
-
-
-LIII.
-
-    For sure, of all who feel my genial gale,
-      Or to the sun their fragrant breasts unfold,
-    The best and sweetest that on earth prevail,
-      Yet do I not in this fair court behold.
-
-
-LIV.
-
-    He said; and FLORA, rising from her throne,
-      Bade present search for ev’ry one be made:
-    Who, though their off’rings on her altar shone,
-      Their modest haste had from the court convey’d.
-
-
-LV.
-
-    Strait they return’d:—The lovely blushing Rose,
-      The Lily ever chaste and ever fair,
-    The Vi’let sweet with purple tints that glows,
-      And Myrtle green, that scents the ambient air:
-
-
-LVI.
-
-    With many more, grateful to sight and smell,
-      By bounteous heav’n with matchless charms endu’d;
-    That in the fragrant meads or gardens dwell,
-      Or which wild wastes from human eyes seclude.
-
-
-LVII.
-
-    These by their Genii now in modest guise,
-      Excus’d from pleading ’midst the mingled throng.
-    Claim’d but the tribute all allow’d their prize,
-      Nor sought their own just praises to prolong.
-
-
-LVIII.
-
-    Yet, these once seen, abash’d their rivals stand;
-      And would have fled, but FLORA this deny’d;
-    Who, rising graceful, with her out-stretch’d hand,
-      Thus briefly to th’ assembled pow’rs apply’d:
-
-
-LIX.
-
-    “Genii of gardens, meads, and sylvan scenes,
-      Attendant still in FLORA’S vernal train,
-    Say what this ardent, fond contention means,
-      Why strive you thus for pow’r, and strive in vain?
-
-
-LX.
-
-    Are you not all beneath our sceptre blest;
-      Say, do not all confess our gentle sway?
-    Then seek not one to triumph o’er the rest,
-      But each in peaceful order still obey.
-
-
-LXI.
-
-    So _all_ the glories of my reign shall share,
-      So _all_ be still in poets songs renown’d,
-    So shall my ZEPHYR still with gentlest air,
-      Wave o’er your beds, with bloom eternal crown’d.
-
-
-LXII.
-
-    And _you_, who not for pow’r, but beauty’s charms,
-      For gaudy tints, still fiercely would contend;
-    What envious fire such gentle bosoms warms?
-      And where, alas! must the mad contest end?
-
-
-LXIII.
-
-    Each has her charms, and each peculiar worth,
-      To all in various portions duly giv’n,
-    By secret Nature working at its birth,
-      The lavish bounty of indulgent Heav’n.
-
-
-LXIV.
-
-    Each has her charms:—but view the blushing Rose,
-      Behold the beauties of the Lily fair;
-    Few boast of equal excellence to those,
-      Yet with their modest merit none compare.
-
-
-LXV.
-
-    These, therefore, we prefer; and though no Queen
-      Besides Ourselves we will to hold the reign;
-    Yet, for their true desart conspicuous seen,
-      We rank them foremost on the flow’ry plain.
-
-
-LXVI.
-
-    Hear, and obey; and if aught else abide,
-      To raise dispute among your orders bright;
-    Still by true merit let the cause be try’d,
-      And specious _shew_ yield to more solid _right_.”
-
-
-LXVII.
-
-    She spoke;—the Seasons, and the winged Hours,
-      Confirm’d her voice; then breath’d a rich perfume,
-    Which ZEPHYR scatter’d wide o’er all the flow’rs,
-      And deck’d their leaves with more than mortal bloom.
-
-
-LXVIII.
-
-    Then, his lov’d consort straining in his arms,
-      With gentlest touch salutes her swelling breast;
-    Who strait shone forth in more refulgent charms,
-      As JUNO when by vernal JOVE caress’d.
-
-
-LXIX.
-
-    And sudden joining in a mazy dance,
-      The airy phantoms of the scene appear’d;
-    Some to the sprightly timbrel did advance,
-      While some their clear harmonious voices rear’d.
-
-
-LXX.
-
-    But One among the rest, who view’d me stand
-      Intent, and gazing on the prospect near,
-    Came forth, and gently touch’d my trembling hand,
-      And bade me mark his words, and nothing fear:
-
-
-LXXI.
-
-    “And seest thou not (said he) these vary’d flow’rs,
-      Contending still for beauty or for sway?
-    Such are the contests which employ man’s hours,
-      In life’s short, busy, transitory day.
-
-
-LXXII.
-
-    For what is gaudy beauty’s short-liv’d bloom,
-      The pomp of pow’r, of riches, or of pride;
-    Soon bury’d in the undistinguish’d tomb,
-      Which all their boasted pomp at once must hide?
-
-
-LXXIII.
-
-    VIRTUE alone survives, immortal maid!
-      Her truly amaranthine flow’r shall blow,
-    When all the rest are wrapt in dusky shade,
-      And laid in dark and dusty ruins low.
-
-
-LXXIV.
-
-    Hear, and attend!—improve the moral strain,
-      So may’st thou sail safe through life’s dang’rous sea;
-    So from these scenes thou wisdom may’st attain,
-      And FLORA prove MINERVA’S self to thee.”
-
-
-LXXV.
-
-    He ceas’d; and well I mark’d the prudent lore,
-      And much revolv’d his saying in my mind;
-    Bent all the mystic moral to explore,
-      By this romantic, splendid scene design’d.
-
-
-LXXVI.
-
-    But, the full concert swelling on my ear,
-      The bands of Sleep dissolv’d, away he flies;
-    At once the train of phantoms disappear,
-      And on my waking sight the vision dies.
-
-
-LXXVII.
-
-    No longer now near FLORA’S bow’r I stood,
-      But view’d with op’ning eyes the rising day;
-    Then down the Valley fair my path pursu’d,
-      And homeward took my solitary way.
-
-
-
-
-FABLES OF FLOWERS.
-
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. I The Holly Hock & Lily of the Vale_]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. II The Aloe in Blossom_]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE I.
-
-
-The HOLLYHOCK and the LILY of the VALE.
-
-
-I.
-
-    ’Twas early morn, Sol’s radiant beams
-      Illum’d the landscape round.
-    The dew-drops glitter’d on the day,
-      And gem-like deck’d the ground.
-
-
-II.
-
-    Within the garden’s cultur’d walks
-      A Hollyhock there grew;
-    And there the Lily of the Vale
-      Kept humble distance due.
-
-
-III.
-
-    Elate with pride, the gaudy flow’r
-      Expands its swelling breast;
-    And, joying in the vernal scene,
-      The LILY thus address’d:
-
-
-IV.
-
-    “What dost thou here, mean paltry thing,
-      “Go blow in yonder field;
-    “Nor thus disgrace fair FLORA’S tribes,
-      “That heav’nly beauties yield.
-
-
-V.
-
-    “Go, with thy faint and sickly hue;
-      “Some chearless vale adorn;
-    “But here intrude not on our reign,
-      “Nor drink the dew of morn.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “Whilst I with heighten’d colours glow,
-      “In Summer’s liv’ry gay;
-    “Imbibe the softest tints of light,
-      “And glitter on the day.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “Me yonder golden sun shall warm,
-      “At morn and noon-tide hour;
-    “And me his ev’ning beams attend,
-      “Like his own fav’rite flow’r.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Nor yonder Rose, nor Bacchus’ Plant,
-      “Which twining near me grows,
-    “Can boast more excellence than me,
-      “Or brighter dyes disclose.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “Hence thou! nor this fair spot profane,
-      “Where fairer flow’rets blow;
-    “Return again to shades obscure,
-      “And there neglected grow.”
-
-
-X.
-
-    The LILY heard, with decent grace,
-      That scorn’d the boaster’s pride;
-    Then from her lone, unenvy’d bed
-      She thus in brief reply’d;
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “From vaunting loud what fame is gain’d,
-      “To raise the boaster’s name;
-    “Or might not yonder blushing Rose
-      “Exert a fairer claim?
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “And many a flow’r that round thee blows,
-      “In the bright garb of Spring;
-    “Or, rich in elegant perfumes,
-      “That scent the Zephyr’s wing.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “The vine, with purple clusters deck’d,
-      “Shall soon rich sweets bestow;
-    “Whilst thou, a barren flow’r at best,
-      “Art only made for show.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “For ME;—what Nature form’d, I am;
-      “I envy not thy pride;
-    “Nor seek to raise a greater boast,
-      “By Providence deny’d.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “Yet in some dark and dang’rous hour,
-      “When tempests rude assail;
-    “Ev’n thou may’st wish the humbler state
-      “Of LILY OF THE VALE.”
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    Safe from her humble spot she said,
-      And view’d the changing sky;
-    From op’ning clouds the thunders break,
-      The livid lightnings fly.
-
-
-XVII.
-
-    Full on the garden’s lofty wall,
-      The flow’rs exalted place,
-    The fires æthereal swiftly fall,
-      And rend its solid base.
-
-
-XVIII.
-
-    And now the boaster’s trust and pride
-      Assur’d her overthrow;
-    Her glories buried in the dust,
-      By one destructive blow.
-
-
-XIX.
-
-    The LILY view’d the ruin’d flow’r,
-      And strait this Moral drew;
-    _Beauty and Pride are idly vain,_
-      _But Praise is Merit’s due_.
-
-
-XX.
-
-    _Daughters of Albion, timely wise,_
-      _Attend the moral tale;_
-    _And imitate with prudent care_
-      THE LILY OF THE VALE.
-
-
-
-
-FABLE II.
-
-The ALOE in BLOSSOM.
-
-
-I.
-
-    “From warmer climates early borne,
-      “Where beams the god of light;
-    “How gaily blooms yon lofty plant,
-      “In native colours bright!
-
-
-II.
-
-    “The root, the plant, the leaf, the flow’r,
-      “Alike our wonder raise;
-    “And all confess the fragrant stock,
-      “Renown’d in ancient days.
-
-
-III.
-
-    “Some say, but one revolving age
-      “Beholds thy beauties spread;
-    “And rear aloft to genial suns
-      “Its highly blooming head.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    “But thou, like Merit, kindly nurs’d,
-      “An early spring wilt know;
-    “While, check’d by rigid, frowning skies,
-      “Thy gems forget to glow.
-
-
-V.
-
-    “Emblem of Genius rarely known,
-      “And still more rarely giv’n;
-    “To reap the good itself imparts,
-      “And share the gifts of Heav’n.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “Say, glorious stranger, rear’d erewhile
-      “In distant, sunny lands;
-    “Can either India more bestow,
-      “Than Albion’s isle commands?
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “In western and in southern climes
-      “Too long hast thou been plac’d;
-    “And India’s sands, and Afric’s wilds,
-      “Thy beauteous presence grac’d.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Deign then, O sov’reign plant, thy balm,
-      “On this our land bestow;
-    “And give thy flow’rs in all their grace
-      “And lustre here to blow.”—
-
-
-IX.
-
-    The Guardian Sylph, that watch’d the flow’r,
-      Confess’d before me stood;
-    And shook his bright and sunny locks,
-      And thus my suit withstood:
-
-
-X.
-
-    “Cease, cease, he cry’d, such boons to ask,
-      “As scarce deserve a name;
-    “While Albion, favour’d from above,
-      “Can greater blessings claim.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “Still, still, their gems and spicy store,
-      “Let either India boast;
-    “And Afric vaunt the precious sands,
-      “That glitter on her coast.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “Not these, nor all the hidden wealth,
-      “That earth or sea possess;
-    “Can match those richer gifts of heav’n,
-      “Which fair Britannia bless.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “Peace, Freedom, Wealth from farthest shores,
-      “By golden commerce brought;
-    “All these are hers, and ev’ry good,
-      “By happiest nations sought.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “Nor _this_ alone; here Genius blooms,
-      “A _Flow’r_ excelling _mine_.
-    “Nor asks a whole revolving age,
-      “In glories to refine.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “Here too the Fair, with beauty bright,
-      “The hearts of heroes warm;
-    “Those _human blossoms_ genial blow,
-      “And put forth ev’ry charm.
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    “Cease then, _nor envy other climes_
-      “_Their beauties thinly strewn_;
-    “_But learn with decent pride to prize_
-      “_The blessings of your own_.”
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. III. The Rose & Hornet_]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. IV. The Sensitive Plant_]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE III.
-
-The ROSE and the HORNET.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Deep in a lone sequester’d vale,
-      Where many’ a streamlet flows;
-    And nurs’d by many’ a gentle gale,
-      Soft bloom’d a damask Rose.
-
-
-II.
-
-    The Summer’s suns, the Zephyrs bland,
-      All own’d her peerless queen;
-    The honey’d Bee, Spring’s sweetest child,
-      Oft’ sought her breast serene.
-
-
-III.
-
-    Her beauties op’ning on the day,
-      With ev’ry grace were crown’d;
-    Imbib’d the golden solar beam,
-      And deck’d the desart ground.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    Daughter of Nature, still she blow’d,
-      Where human face ne’er shone;
-    And spread her blossoms to the view
-      But of the Sun alone.
-
-
-V.
-
-    Pride of the East, a brighter glow,
-      Beyond our garden’s bloom,
-    Bade her with heighten’d beauty blush,
-      And scatter rich perfume.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    Her rudely rushing through the air
-      An angry HORNET ’spy’d;
-    Vow’d to enjoy the heav’nly flow’r,
-      In all her blooming pride.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    Bold son of heat, with rudest haste,
-    His course he strait address’d;
-    To rifle all her charms in spite,
-    And riot on her breast.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    He search’d each leaf, each blossom wounds
-      With rude unhallow’d rage;
-    Yet nothing could his search explore,
-      His passion to assuage.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    The beauteous flow’r, though wildly rent,
-      No sweetness would afford;
-    But hurt by many a vengeful thorn,
-      His rashness he deplor’d.
-
-
-X.
-
-    At length, thus baffled and deceiv’d,
-      Enrag’d, he silence broke;
-    And now of ev’ry hope bereft,
-      He thus insulting spoke;
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “Vain gaudy flow’r, they term thy breast
-      “Engaging, bright, and fair;
-    “Who seek thy bosom, ne’er shall find
-      “Or joy or sweetness there.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “The Bee indeed, thy fav’rite, still
-      “Says, Honey springs from thee;
-    “Yet nought but trouble, care, and pain,
-      “Hast thou bestow’d on me.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “Then boast no more thy beauteous form
-      “That still excites desire;
-    “Since _Thorns_ alone thou canst bestow,
-      “To quench a lover’s fire.”
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    Then thus the Rose,—“Intruder vile!
-      “Who thus would’st force employ;
-    “Though arm’d with pow’r; know ’tis not thine
-      “To taste substantial joy.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “The Bee, who sips each sweet that glows
-      “In lawn or shady bow’r,
-    “Tastes all the honey as he flies,
-      “But never wounds the flow’r.
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    “Whilst thou, both impious and unwise,
-      “Of all our tribes the scorn:
-    “For ev’ry violated sweet
-      “Shalt always meet a thorn.”
-
-
-
-
-FABLE IV. The SENSITIVE PLANT.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Rare plant, or flow’r, or nymph-like tree,
-      With human sense endu’d;
-    Why dost thou shrink beneath the touch,
-      And bear but to be _view’d_?
-
-
-II.
-
-    Say does some Hamadryad chuse
-      In that green stem to live?
-    And to her highly favour’d shrine
-      This strong sensation give?
-
-
-III.
-
-    Well for thy sake their ancient oaks
-      The wood-nymphs might forsake;
-    And in thy purer bosom with
-      Their lov’d abodes to make.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    Yet why indignant from each hand
-      Alike dost thou retire?
-    Does ev’ry touch, replete with ill,
-      Alike thy hate inspire?
-
-
-V.
-
-    Too cautious nymph! well might’st thou deign
-      To some thy breast unfold;
-    Sure those would _worship_ at the _touch_,
-      Who _love_ when they _behold_.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    Shrunk in herself, with modest grace
-      The Plant thus fair reply’d,
-    “Whate’er my source, my maiden state
-      “But ill agrees with pride[10].
-
-[10] This flower is encompassed with thorns, and its root is said to
-have a poisonous quality.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “In purity alone I joy;
-      “I seek no other fame,
-    “But that which from chaste wishes grows,
-      “And suits a virgin’s name.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Nymphs of the woods, the groves, and streams,
-      “Too oft have found the smart
-    “Of looser fires, which, once indulg’d,
-      “Will rankle in the heart.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “Me no rude touch shall e’er profane;
-      “That guard if once I leave,
-    “Of ev’ry virtue well I know
-      “Mankind would me bereave.
-
-
-X.
-
-    “Nor this alone, know, curious youth,
-      “A thorny mail I own;
-    “Foe to the rash unthinking hand
-      “That violates my throne.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “And ev’n within this spotless breast
-      “Does deadly venom spring;
-    “So he that ravishes the sweets,
-      “May meet the mortal sting.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “Go then, and range from flow’r to flow’r,
-      “Amidst the gaudy train:
-    “But sacred be my homely plant,
-      “To bright-hair’d Vesta’s reign.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “She ceas’d; nor I the flow’r profan’d,
-      “To chastity devote;
-    “But on the sand with rustic pen,
-      “This sacred moral wrote:
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    _The Nymph who slights strict virtue’s guard,_
-      _Shall quickly meet a snare;_
-    _And Pleasures, rais’d on Virtue’s bane,_
-      _Are fatal, as they’re fair._
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. V The Hawthorn & Primrose_]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. VI The White Rose & Red_]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE V.
-
-The HAWTHORN and the PRIMROSE.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Beneath a wild and rustic shade,
-      Impervious to the view;
-    In the sweet-smiling month of May,
-      A lovely Primrose grew.
-
-
-II.
-
-    The gentle child of early Spring
-      By bounteous FLORA crown’d;
-    With vernal beauties born to deck
-      The unfrequented ground.
-
-
-III.
-
-    The brightest dye, the sweetest scent,
-      Her yellow leaves could yield;
-    Were spent upon the empty air,
-      Nor e’er adorn’d the field.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    For round her grew a bushy brake,
-      With many’ a thorn beset;
-    And many’ a weed obscene and foul
-      Deform’d the green retreat.
-
-
-V.
-
-    But high above the rest advanc’d
-      A spreading Hawthorn rose;
-    Whose lengthen’d branches overhung
-      The seat of her repose.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    Her gem-like blossoms wide display’d
-      The darkling dell adorn;
-    With grateful fragrance kiss the wind,
-      And drink the dew of morn’.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    Her the lone Rose in mournful guise
-      Full many a day had ey’d;
-    And thus at length one summer’s eve
-      She all impatient cry’d.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Ah Thorn! the bane of all my hopes!
-      “Ah Thorn! that wound’st my peace!
-    “Still must I view thy branches spread,
-      “And still my woes increase:
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “I who long since had, happier far,
-      “Been by some fair caress’d;
-    “Had drunk the radiance of her eye,
-      “And panted on her breast?
-
-
-X.
-
-    “What have I done, O wretch! that still
-      “This evil treatment meets;
-    “Or hast thou aught in lieu to give
-      “To those who lose my sweets?”
-
-
-XI.
-
-    She said:—the Hawthorn thus reply’d,
-      “Fond pageant of an hour!
-    “Art _thou_ displeas’d because _I_ bloom,
-      “Though shelter’d by my pow’r?
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “And know’st thou not that but for _me_
-      “Thy boasted bloom were vain;
-    “By grazing herds trod under foot,
-      “And level’d with the plain?
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “_Thee_ I protect; _myself_ am known
-      “Among the warlike race;
-    “Whom Nature arms with prompt defence
-      “Of most excelling grace.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “Nor idly I these weapons wear,
-      “Nor idle is my bloom;
-    “One arms me for myself and thee;
-      “The other sheds perfume.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “And oft as this returning month
-      “Adds vigour to the year;
-    “Crown’d with my gems in rustic dance
-      “The nymphs and swains appear.
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    “Me the fleet hare, and tim’rous fawn,
-      “Seek at their greatest need;
-    “They rest secure beneath my shade,
-      “And on my bounty feed.
-
-
-XVII.
-
-    “But most the plaintive Philomel,
-      “Sweet warbler of the grove,
-    “Joys ’midst my branches to repose,
-      “And sing her hapless love.
-
-
-XVIII.
-
-    “Against my thorns her bosom plac’d,
-      “She strains her tuneful throat;
-    “And by my useful aid exalts
-      “Each sweetly trilling note.
-
-
-XIX.
-
-    “Sacred to FLORA, of her train
-      “Although no flow’r am I;
-    “And born to flourish many a moon,
-      “When thou shalt fade and die.”
-
-
-XX.
-
-    “Cease then, nor envy this my state,
-      “Which must _thy own_ defend;
-    “The thorns I bear shall save thy flow’r,
-      “And prove thy surest friend.”
-
-
-XXI.
-
-    So spake the HAWTHORN, justly wise;
-      The ROSE unansw’ring heard:
-    I caught the Moral, as it rose;
-      And thus its sense appear’d:
-
-
-XXII.
-
-    _Life’s humble vale is most secure;_
-      _Cares on th’ exalted wait:_
-    _Yet those who well the weak protect_
-      _Deserve_ UNENVY’D STATE.
-
-
-
-
-FABLE VI.
-
-The WHITE ROSE and the RED.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Contending beauties, whom the doom
-      Of Fate has still assign’d
-    Two fragrant rival flow’rs to blow,
-      And scent the western wind;
-
-
-II.
-
-    The WHITE ROSE and the BLUSHING RED,
-      Each one the garden’s pride,
-    With equal grace their leaves display’d,
-      And flourish’d side by side.
-
-
-III.
-
-    The _first_ of spotless beauty vain
-      That sudden caught the eye,
-    The _last_ attentive praise to gain
-      From her more sanguine dye.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    Of sov’reign virtue both well known,
-      Both favour’d from above:
-    Still full of glory rose each flow’r,
-      Emblems of gentle Love.
-
-
-V.
-
-    Yet ’twixt their stocks wild feuds subsist,
-      To work them lasting woe;
-    Whilst each of other still complain’d,
-      And strove her overthrow.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “Shame, said the RED, on that pale hue,
-      “Which speaks the wearer’s heart;
-    “That, void of virtue as of grace,
-      “No colour can impart.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “Unlike the blushes that adorn
-      “My flow’r with colour meet,
-    “AURORA’S, when she wakes the day,
-      “Appear not half so sweet.”
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Nay! Shame on thee, the White reply’d,
-      “Whose blush by _guilt_ was giv’n:
-    “Ev’n by the blood of VENUS shed,
-      “Our patroness in Heav’n[11].
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “Till then like me all Roses were,
-      “Whose ancient stock I claim;
-    “And, void of crime, still reprobate
-      “Their colour with their name.”
-
-
-X.
-
-    “This and much more she angry said:
-      “But JOVE’S immortal flow’r[12]
-    “Their ill-meant conversation broke,
-      “With soft, persuasive pow’r.
-
-[11] According to the old Fable, the Rose was at first always white,
-till Venus, while she was pursuing Adonis, scratched herself with its
-thorns, and thereby stained it with her cœlestial blood.
-
-[12] The Amaranth.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “Forbear, she cry’d, in haughty guise,
-      “Reproachful to contend:
-    “Whoe’er the victrix, small her gain,
-      “That thus can lose a friend.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “Ally’d by Nature in your kind,
-      “And diff’ring but in Hue:
-    “You both possess intrinsic worth,
-      “And outward beauty too.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “Long was the strife your[13] ancient state,
-      “In this our isle pursu’d;
-    “Which many a year drench’d either Rose,
-      “In seas of kindred blood.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “Oh! may no more such horrors rise,
-      “Within our Garden’s pale:
-    “But all with emulation strive,
-      “That concord may prevail!
-
-[13] Alluding to the Civil Wars of York and Lancaster, in which the
-White Rose and the Red were adopted as tokens or devices by their
-different partisans.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “May civil feuds and ranc’rous hate
-      “From hence be banish’d far;
-    “Foul is that strife, where friends contest,
-      “And wage inhuman war.
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    “Then to this solemn truth give ear;
-      “_Where trifles thus are priz’d,_
-    “_If two for victory contend;_
-      “_They both will be despis’d_.”
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. VII. The Crocus_]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. VIII. Anemone & Passion Flower_]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE VII.
-
-The CROCUS.
-
-
-I.
-
-    “Say, beauteous flow’r, whose burnish’d leaves
-      “With Spring’s own livery glow:
-    “In these bleak months, why dost thou chuse
-      “T’ adorn a waste of snow?
-
-
-II.
-
-    “Say, dost thou grudge to summer-skies,
-      “That bloom divinely bright:
-    “Or, are thy beauties clearer seen,
-      “Through this thin Robe of White?
-
-
-III.
-
-    “The Snow-drop, thy companion fair,
-      “As well thy foil might prove,
-    “And both might bloom in seasons sweet,
-      “And far from hence remove.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    “To Summer’s gayer months benign;
-      “Should’st thou transfer thy reign,
-    “Thy beauties still would brighter glow,
-      “And doubly grace the plain.—”
-
-
-V.
-
-    I said:—the lovely smiling flow’r,
-      The beauty of its race;
-    And friendly to the sons of men,
-      Reply’d with decent grace:
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “Nature’s great book before thee set:
-      “She blames thee not to scan
-    “Her works on every side display’d,
-      “The fit employ of man.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “When Spring and Summer glad the earth,
-      “Ten thousand beauties bloom;
-    “And various flow’rs of brightest hue,
-      “Diffuse a rich perfume.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Autumn of fruits her tribute brings,
-      “With, yellow harvests crown’d;
-    “Then laugh the hills and vales, and meads
-      “With richest plenty crown’d.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “Winter, at length, with gloomy brow,
-      “Comes on to close the year;
-    “When flow’rs and fruits, and all their race,
-      “Almost extinct appear.
-
-
-X.
-
-    “Yet still some few the gracious Pow’rs
-      “Permit of these to bloom:
-    “Nor heap alike all FLORA’S race,
-      “In one remorseless tomb.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “And soon as to the wat’ry Signs,
-      “The Sun retreats again;
-    “Then she my flamy dyes awakes,
-      “And bids me deck the plain.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “Nor less my worth because ’midst snows,
-      “My head I early rear;
-    “My flow’r still fresh and lively blooms,
-      “As at the closing year.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “And know, when Autumn’s Sun prevails,
-      “My kindred flow’rs arise;
-    “In forms which heav’nly pow’rs might praise,
-      “And scent the ambient skies[14].
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “These ev’ry dismal gloom dispel;
-      “Which mis’ry can impart,
-    “And joy and gladness still inspire,
-      “And harmonize the heart.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “Meanwhile my earlier station here,
-      “(Health’s harbinger) I keep,
-    “To glad the sad and cloudy days;
-      “When Spring’s soft Zephyrs sleep.
-
-[14] It is here to be noted that the autumnal Crocus is the Saffron
-Flower, so famous in Medicine.
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    “So, in the Winter of his days,
-      “Chear thou thy drooping friend;
-    “His sorrows sooth, his griefs assuage,
-      “And prompt assistance lend.
-
-
-XVII.
-
-    “So, when his fate and fortune lour,
-      “Thy better aid impart;
-    “And with thy fortune’s warmer ray,
-      “Revive his dying heart.
-
-
-XVIII.
-
-    She said;—the moral well became
-      The sweet, propitious flow’r;
-    I mark’d the lore with heedful mind,
-      And own’d fair FRIENDSHIP’S pow’r.
-
-
-
-
-FABLE VIII.
-
-The ANEMONE and the PASSION FLOWER.
-
-
-I.
-
-    “Bright flow’r renown’d in ancient times,
-      “Amidst the Cyprian shades;
-    “The theme of wonder and of praise
-      “To soft Sidonian maids.
-
-
-II.
-
-    “Hail! Goddess-born! hail! thou produc’d
-      “From the bright mingled flood
-    “Of VENUS’ tears, as bards have sung,
-      “And her ADONIS’ blood.
-
-
-III.
-
-    “Rich are thy blossoms in each hue
-      “That can inchant the fight;
-    “And strike at once the ravish’d eye
-      “With wonder and delight.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    “Hail! sacred Plant, born but to shew
-      “ADONIS’ yearly wound;
-    “By gentle VENUS taught to bloom,
-      “With heav’nly beauties crown’d.”
-
-
-V.
-
-    I said; when lo; an awful form
-      Upon my orgies broke;
-    And, like some bright cœlestial pow’r,
-      In lofty accents spoke:
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “Hence, thou profane; nor wound me thus
-      “With thy unhallow’d song;
-    “But turn, and see, who blossoms here,
-      “To whom thy strains belong.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “The Tyrian Boy, and VENUS’ self;
-      “Before my face shall fly;
-    “Their beauty gone, their lustre lost,
-      “And all their charms shall die.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “I am the only flow’r on earth,
-      “With signs divine adorn’d;
-    “By me, of Heav’n thus favour’d high,
-      “All Pagan Gods are scorn’d.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “The purple ring, the bloody crown,
-      “The nails, and guilty spear,
-    “That slew the Lord of Life, behold
-      “In my symbolic sphere.
-
-
-X.
-
-    “Deep to Lethéan shades my root
-      “Still downward seems to tend;
-    “As from the Cross’s sacred base,
-      “To Hell it would descend.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “Then here thy mis-plac’d rev’rence shew,
-      “And bow before this shrine;
-    “Where Angel Hosts themselves might pray,
-      “And own the Plant divine.”
-
-
-XII.
-
-    She said; ADONIS’ flow’ret bow’d,
-      As to superior pow’r;
-    My conscious heart was struck with dread;
-      Before the wond’rous flow’r.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    But whilst intent my rev’rence there
-      With honour due to pay;
-    The heav’ns withdrew their useful light,
-      And clos’d the hours of day.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    I look’d;—no more those signs I saw,
-      Which had my rev’rence drawn:
-    For ever shut the mirrour stood[15],
-      Which thus had grac’d the lawn.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    A while I gaz’d; at length I cry’d,
-      And art THOU mortal too?
-    Are all THY sacred beauties fled,
-      Or faded on the view?
-
-[15] This flower opens in the morning, and fades away in the evening,
-closing up, and never opening again.
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    _Vain then is all external awe,_
-      _That images impart;_
-    _And_ HE _that rules above is best_
-      _Recorded in the_ HEART.
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. IX. The Lily & Narcissus_]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. X. The Ivy & Sweet Briar_]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE IX.
-
-The LILY and NARCISSUS.
-
-
-I.
-
-    “Ah! hapless discontented flow’r,
-      “That yellow leaves adorn;
-    “Who once in life’s gay vernal pride
-      “The brightest nymphs could’st scorn.
-
-
-II.
-
-    “Hard was thy lot, and short thy date,
-      “By form too fair undone;
-    “Thou met’st, alas! a timeless doom,
-      “Ere half thy course was run.
-
-
-III.
-
-    “Unhappy, self-admiring youth,
-      “A lesson thou shalt prove;
-    “T’ avoid vain pride, that idle toy,
-      “And shun prepost’rous love.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    “Fair when a boy, now chang’d, no more
-      “Those beauties can’st thou boast;
-    “But ever sadly may’st repent
-      “In vain those beauties lost.
-
-
-V.
-
-    “View yonder Lily’s snowy pride,
-      “Sprung from a seed divine;
-    “Then own how much her beauty bright,
-      “Fond flow’r, out-rivals thine!”
-
-
-VI.
-
-    With modest grace the Lily bow’d
-      The honours of her head;
-    Then, with a sweet and modest grace,
-      She thus instructive said:
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “Well may they droop, to whom their fate,
-      “With form divinely fair,
-    “No other, better boon has giv’n
-      “To make that beauty dear.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “For not this glossy white I bear,
-      “Delight of human eyes;
-    “Nor this so graceful form admir’d,
-      “Are what I wish to prize.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “From heav’nly strain[16] I first arose,
-      “Emblem of chaste desires;
-    “And still that chastity retain,
-      “And check unhallow’d fires.
-
-
-X.
-
-    “No empty self-admirer, I
-      “Would Folly’s trophies raise;
-    “Such _virtue_ then let all applaud,
-      “Not empty _beauty_ praise.”
-
-[16] According to the Old Fable, Jupiter being willing to make Hercules
-immortal, caused him to suck Juno while she was asleep; when the milk
-gushing out into a great quantity, some of it being spilt upon the
-sky, made the galaxy or milky way there, while the rest falling to the
-earth, gave birth to the White Lily.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    She said; and strait the moral found
-      Deep entrance in my breast;
-    BEAUTY, _if not with_ VIRTUE _join’d,_
-      _Is but an idle jest_.
-
-
-
-
-FABLE X.
-
-The IVY and SWEET BRIAR.
-
-
-I.
-
-    “Hail, sacred IVY! hail,” I said,
-      “Devote to BACCHUS’ shrine;
-    “Parent of wreaths, which deck the brows
-      “Of Gods and men divine.
-
-
-II.
-
-    “Why call thee baleful, why despise
-      “Thy ancient friendly race;
-    “Who clasp the Elm and sturdy Oak
-      “In mystical embrace.
-
-
-III.
-
-    “MINERVA’S bird too deigns to dwell
-      “Where thou art frequent seen;
-    “Who loves the calm and peaceful hour,
-      “And courts the deep serene.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    “Thou, like the Vine, thy patron’s joy,
-      “Thy nurture wilt receive,
-    “And, twining close with friendly arms,
-      “Wilt still supported live.
-
-
-V.
-
-    “With PHŒBUS’ laurel justly thou
-      “May’st hold divided claim;
-    “The crown of glorious conquerors,
-      “And meed of deathless fame.”
-
-
-VI.
-
-    Thus whilst I spoke, the West wind rose,
-      And scatter’d rich perfume,
-    From thickets, where sweet Eglantine
-      Appear’d in vernal bloom.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    Thence a soft voice salutes my ear,
-      Which thus complaining said;
-    “Fond youth, to yonder noxious weed
-      “Why all these honours paid?
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “The Vine, ’tis true, will wed her Elm;
-      “But view the dow’r she brings!
-    “From yonder steril, forc’d embrace
-      “Alas! what profit springs?
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “Like a false friend, too sure, she twines,
-      “Intent but to destroy;
-    “As Jealousy, Love’s offspring, still
-      “Impoisons all Love’s joy.
-
-
-X.
-
-    “How poor that _virtue_, which retires
-      “To solitude for aid!
-    “_How weak that wisdom_, which can shine
-      “Alone in night’s dun shade!
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “And what, though gods and godlike men
-      “Their victor brows have bound
-    “With ivy’d wreaths; is then the weed
-      “For that alone renown’d?
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “Say rather, in that purer age,
-      “When spotless honour reign’d;
-    “The victor, seeking only fame,
-      “A worthless crown obtain’d.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “Hence Ivy, Parsley, Oaken Boughs,
-      “Their labour well repaid,
-    “Who not for gain, but glory’s charms,
-      “Their gen’rous strength display’d.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “But thou, regardful of fair truth,
-      “And glory justly gain’d;
-    “Scorn the frail claim of upstarts base,
-      “By such false means obtain’d.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “_Not borrow’d names from high descent,_
-      “_Are real honour’s meed;_
-    “_But they alone are_ GREAT, _whose fame_
-      “_Springs from_ THEIR OWN _fair deed_.”
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XI. The Violet Transplanted_]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XII. The Tulip & Amaranth_]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XI.
-
-The VIOLET TRANSPLANTED.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Where fragrant field-flow’rs, gaily spread,
-      Drink deep the morning dew;
-    Close by a murm’ring riv’let’s side
-      An humble Vi’let grew.
-
-
-II.
-
-    To her the cultur’d spot unknown,
-      She bloom’d in her retreat;
-    And there in native fragrance bless’d,
-      Dispers’d a world of sweet.
-
-
-III.
-
-    But yet not undisturb’d her lot
-      By Providence was cast;
-    For oft’ the herds went grazing forth
-      And laid the meadow waste.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    And oft’ the trav’ler’s careless step
-      Had laid her on the plain;
-    Yet, by the living streamlet fed,
-      She soon reviv’d again.
-
-
-V.
-
-    At length a curious Florist saw
-      The sweetly blooming flow’r;
-    Call’d her the field’s and garden’s pride,
-      And plac’d her in his bow’r.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    Here, with a thousand beauties rang’d,
-      Her elegance was lost;
-    No more the cultur’d spot she grac’d;
-      No more fair FLORA’S boast.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    Abandon’d by his hand, who first
-      Her charms with pleasure view’d;
-    She in her rise beheld her fate,
-      And now neglected stood.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    She droop’d, she pin’d; the richer soil
-      No nurture could afford;
-    And oft’ in vain her humbler lot
-      The fading flow’r deplor’d.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    The happier tribes that flourish’d round
-      Did each her state deride;
-    Rejoicing that she paid so dear
-      For what they deem’d her pride.
-
-
-X.
-
-    The Sun in Cancer flam’d aloft
-      Dry thirst her moisture drank;
-    In vain she wish’d the lucent flood,
-      Or shade of osiers dank.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    Oppress’d at length she drooping fell,
-      As ready to expire;
-    Her bosom unresisting spread
-      To Sol’s consuming fire.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    When lo! from heav’n a gentle rain
-      Cool’d that too fervid ray;
-    And soon reviv’d the beauteous flow’r,
-      Which glow’d upon the day.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    Her bloom restor’d, renew’d again;
-      Her former lord attends;
-    And midst the fairest of the fair
-      She numbers now her friends.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    Yet, deeply struck with former ills,
-      An humble flow’r she blooms;
-    No pride that lovely bosom knows,
-      Whence ZEPHYR steals perfumes;
-
-
-XV.
-
-    And to the Fair this useful truth
-      She evermore reveals;
-    _That she best knows her Beauty’s force,_
-      _Who modestly conceals_.
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XII.
-
-The TULIP and the AMARANTH.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Where various beauties mingled rise,
-      All grateful to the view;
-    With variegated beauties bright,
-      A gaudy TULIP grew.
-
-
-II.
-
-    Its leaves with flamy splendour shine,
-      Mix’d with more vivid green;
-    And all the tints that deck heav’n’s bow
-      Upon the flow’r are seen.
-
-
-III.
-
-    The gently passing vernal air
-      The beauteous plant caress’d;
-    And ZEPHYR ever pleas’d reclin’d
-      Upon the charmer’s breast.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    While near at hand the GENTLE FLOW’R,
-      Call’d AMARANTH, below
-    The blooming guest of JOVE’S own seats,
-      Deign’d in her prime to grow.
-
-
-V.
-
-    Yet she with hairs uncouthly deck’d,
-      Unlike the Tulip race,
-    Is not among the flowr’ets found,
-      Whose colours mark their grace.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    This swell’d her rival’s empty pride,
-      And, vain of empty shew;
-    The Amaranth askance she ey’d,
-      And thus contemptuous spoke;
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “Of all the flow’rs that deck the lawn,
-      “The progeny of Spring;
-    “And all that of maturer birth
-      “The later seasons bring:
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Of all that for their fairer forms
-      “May raise the justest claim;
-    “Of all that men for beauty prize,
-      “Or from perfection name:
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “Behold me, first and fairest known,
-      “Still lov’d and valu’d most;
-    “Soft daughter of the vernal hour,
-      “The cultur’d garden’s boast.
-
-
-X.
-
-    “Why deign I then so long with _these_
-      “To dwell without reserve;
-    “That scarce, though vulgar eyes they charm,
-      “The name of FLOW’R deserve?”
-
-
-XI.
-
-    The blooming Amaranth, unmov’d,
-      Repress’d her forward pride;
-    The boaster’s arrogance despis’d,
-      And wisely thus reply’d;
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “Yes, gaudy thing; thy various hues
-      “Are fine indeed and gay;
-    “Glaring thou glitter’st on the sight,
-      “And flaunt’st it to the day!
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “No flow’r around more bright can blow,
-      “In beauty more mature!
-    “But tell me, false, frail, giddy thing,
-      “How long shall that endure?
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “Me, not the least of FLORA’S tribe,
-      “Me thou hast laugh’d to scorn,
-    “And deem’d my claim to beauty vain,
-      “Although cœlestial born.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “For know, though scarce allow’d by thee
-      “To rank among the flow’rs;
-    “From Heav’n I draw my high descent,
-      “And bloom’d in Eden’s bow’rs.
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    “And still eternal is my race,
-      “No frail decay I know;
-    “But, emblem of the first great Spring,
-      “For ever bloom below.
-
-
-XVII.
-
-    “But thou! the pageant of an hour,
-      “Too quickly shalt deplore
-    “Those beauties with’ring all away,
-      “Which fade, to charm no more.
-
-
-XVIII.
-
-    “_Thou_, wretch! no second Spring shalt see,
-      “To renovate thy bloom;
-    “Whilst _I_ survive the stroke of fate,
-      “And triumph o’er the tomb.
-
-
-XIX.
-
-    “Cease then thy boast! in Wisdom’s lore
-      “Go learn thyself to know;
-    “And by _her_ never-failing rule
-      “Judge all things here below.
-
-
-XX.
-
-    “_A fleeting joy, a fading bloom,_
-      “_May charm the ravish’d sight;_
-    “_That only which is truly good,_
-      “_Is lasting, as ’tis bright._”
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XIII. The Youth & Honeysuckle_]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XIV. Belinda & the Blue-bell or Venus’s Looking
-Glass_]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XIII.
-
-THE HONEYSUCKLE.
-
-
-I.
-
-    At height of noon, a youth reclin’d
-      Beneath a woodbine bow’r;
-    Defended by whose thick’ning shade,
-      He pass’d the sultry hour,
-
-
-II.
-
-    But when mild breezes cool’d the air,
-      And length’ning shadows rose;
-    He scann’d with philosophic mind
-      The place of his repose.
-
-
-III.
-
-    High over-head the twining boughs,
-      Where thousand blossoms glow,
-    Of ev’ry beam of light bereave
-      The cool alcove below.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    “Ah! (said the youth) ungrateful still!
-      “And dost thou thus repay
-    “The bounties of that glorious God,
-      “Who wak’d thee into day?
-
-
-V.
-
-    “While he in his meridian course
-      “Illumines wide the sky;
-    “Dost thou, O wretch, resist his pow’r,
-      “And all his beams defy?
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “Unlike to thee, ingrate, behold
-      “The Sun-flow’r drinks his light;
-    “Lives, to his radiance ever true,
-      “And with him sinks to night.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “But like some faithless fav’rite you,
-      “Or some more faithless fair;
-    “Spurn at the very pow’r that grac’d,
-      “And made you what you are.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Oh! useful lesson to be learn’d,
-      “With scanty hand to pour
-    “Those blessings, which, when once conferr’d,
-      “Shall ne’er be thought on more!”
-
-
-IX.
-
-    Unmov’d the beauteous Woodbine heard,
-      Then, nodding from on high,
-    Shook the green honours of her brow,
-      As thus she made reply:
-
-
-X.
-
-    “Vain is the hypocritic plea
-      “That gilds the selfish end;
-    “And base the poor unfeeling heart
-      “That ill repays a friend.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “For _me_, not such my care ill-plac’d;—
-      “My blessings unconfin’d,
-    “I give each gentle breathing air,
-      “And scatter to the wind.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “What if my leaves exclude that Pow’r
-      “By whom thou say’st I live;
-    “Yet He beholds me, while I bloom,
-      “A grateful tribute give.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “My fragrance, nay, that friendly shade,
-      “Which you ungrateful blame,
-    “Are off’rings still to PHŒBUS’ self,
-      “Who nurs’d them with his flame.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “He, for the use of base mankind,
-      “Bade me all these dispense:
-    “For whom I spread these vernal charms,
-      “So pleasing to the sense.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “Ungrateful THOU, thy ill-meant charge
-      “Take back, so mis-apply’d:
-    “And fairly reason with thy heart,
-      “And check thy selfish pride.
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    “Thou, in my shadows late reclin’d,
-      “Could’st pass the hours at ease;
-    “_Then_, what is _now_ ingratitude,
-      “Thy narrow mind could please.
-
-
-XVII.
-
-    “Take back the charge; thy maxim too;
-       With thee let others use:—
-    “Keep THOU this moral in thy mind,
-      “_T’ enjoy, but not abuse_.”
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XIV.
-
-THE BLUE-BELL; or, VENUS’S LOOKING-GLASS.
-
-
-I.
-
-    O’er verdant lawns, and dappled meads,
-      The young BELINDA stray’d;
-    On ev’ry tree, on ev’ry flow’r,
-      Philosophis’d the maid.
-
-
-II.
-
-    The Cowslip, and the Primrose too,
-      Had oft-times been her theme;
-    And yellow Crocus’ flaming dyes
-      Had ting’d her waking dream.
-
-
-III.
-
-    For, roving o’er the pathless grass,
-      Or through the woodland wild;
-    She oft with Contemplation walk’d
-      _Bright Fancy’s sweetest child_.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    Absorb’d and lost in Nature’s maze,
-      Then rapt from earth she stood;
-    And, pleas’d, in all his various works,
-      The great Creator view’d.
-
-
-V.
-
-    ’Twas smiling May; the op’ning year
-      With vernal grace was crown’d;
-    And ev’ry plant, and ev’ry flow’r,
-      Diffus’d fresh fragrance round.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    From cultur’d gardens far remote
-      The beauteous charmer rov’d;
-    And listen’d to the birds wild notes,
-      And rang’d those meads she lov’d.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    To court the touch of her fair hand,
-      Each field-flow’r eager press’d;
-    To bask beneath her funny eyes,
-      And kiss her snowy breast.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    Amongst the crowd, a flow’r she ’spy’d,
-      Long since well known to fame;
-    Of _Venus’ Looking-glass_ whose pride
-      Assum’d the pompous name.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “And how! she cry’d, can’st thou display,
-      “To captivate the sight,
-    “More than the stream, which yonder rolls
-      “Its glassy mirrour bright?”
-
-
-X.
-
-    She sought in vain; a bell-shap’d flow’r,
-      With Vi’let blossoms crown’d:
-    Diffus’d itself with mingled corn,
-      And purpled o’er the ground.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    She pluck’d, but strait away she cast
-      The vain pretender far;
-    Which angry ruffled all its flow’rs,
-      In vegetable war:
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “What had bright VENUS’ mirrour done,
-      “Thus to be cast aside?
-    “Or how (she said) could VENUS’ Nymph
-      “The Goddess’ gift deride?”
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “Peace! angry thing! BELINDA said;
-      “Not VENUS I despise;
-    “But _you_, who by your own false glass
-      “Would cheat deluded eyes.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “What boots it thus your high descent,
-      “As Goddess-born, to claim;
-    “If not one smallest trace appear
-      “Of your exalted name?
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “Go! in yon’ _real_ mirrour view
-      “The form which you possess;
-    “Then speak but what you _really are_;
-      “And be your boasting less.
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    “A Blue-bell of the finest dye,
-      “You well may be allow’d;
-    “But _Venus’ Looking-glass_ in vain
-      “Would cheat a giddy crowd.”
-
-
-XVII.
-
-    The haughty flow’r corrected stood.—
-      Attend, ye British fair:
-    _Let not_ appearances _prevail_;
-      _Be_ real worth _your care_.
-
-
-XVIII.
-
-    _And know, whoe’er by vain pretence_
-      _Shall others seek to blind;_
-    _Must stand abash’d, when brought before_
-      _The_ MIRROUR OF THE MIND.
-
-[Illustration: _Fab XV. The Larkspur & Myrtle_]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab XVI. The Poppy & Sun-Flower_]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XV.
-
-The LARKSPUR and the MYRTLE.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Fav’rite of MARS, amidst the tribes
-      That on bright FLORA wait,
-    And swell the glories of her reign
-      With more than regal state;
-
-
-II.
-
-    The Larkspur, plant of ancient stock,
-      Advanc’d his ensign high;
-    And claim’d th’ immortal wreath of fame,
-      Due to a Deity.
-
-
-III.
-
-    Like some bold warrior’s is his mien;
-      Helmet and spurs he wears;
-    And on his coat of vary’d dyes
-      Each warlike blazon bears.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    Proud of his form, and of the [17]Pow’r
-      That from his contact sprung;
-    Exalted above all his peers,
-      Thus Pride inspir’d his tongue:
-
-
-V.
-
-    “Ye painted, puling race, avaunt!
-      “To greater merit yield;
-    “Forego the honours of the day,
-      “When I dispute the field.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “Far hence your tinsel trappings bear
-      “To some luxuriant bed,
-    “Where, nurs’d by ZEPHYR’S wanton gales,
-      “Their idle bloom may spread!
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “In ME behold the warrior’s grace,
-      “And monarch’s pow’r display’d;
-    “In me, to Heav’n itself ally’d,
-      “In martial pomp array’d.
-
-[17] Juno is said to have conceived Mars by only touching the flower
-called Larkspur.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Emblem of thund’ring MARS I rise,
-      “My boast and offspring too;
-    “Then own the progeny divine,
-      “And pay the tribute due.”
-
-
-IX.
-
-    The Myrtle heard;—fair VENUS’ care,
-      With peaceful honours crown’d;
-    The glory of the genial hour,
-      By lovers still renown’d.
-
-
-X.
-
-    “And how! said she, redoubted knight,
-      “Would’st thou with US engage?
-    “Did ever MARS, of glory vain,
-      “Rough wars with VENUS wage?
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “_Her_ flow’r I am; _her_ name I boast,
-      “Who can mankind subdue;
-    “And by a gentler method far
-      “Than any known to you.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “Say, boaster, what are realms destroy’d
-      “By many a foughten field;
-    “When desp’rate battles, bravely won,
-      “A bloody harvest yield?
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “Can these atone the dreadful ills
-      “That wasteful wars supply;
-    “When from the horrid din of arms
-      “The Loves and Graces fly?
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “Remember, when the blue-ey’d Maid
-      “With NEPTUNE did contend:
-    “Say, who the greatest gift produc’d;
-      “And let our contest end.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “The Palm to PALLAS was decreed,
-      “Who nam’d fair ATHENS; there
-    “The warlike steed, great NEPTUNE’S boast,
-      “Yields to the Olive fair.
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    “Then thou, proud Knight, exult no more,
-      “Abase thy haughty crest;
-    “Give honour due to meek-ey’d Peace,
-      “And Love, her genial guest.”
-
-
-XVII.
-
-    _Let then great_ MARS _his Pow’r resign_
-      _To brighter_ VENUS’ _fame;_
-    _And quit the glories of the field,_
-      _When_ LOVE _disputes the claim_.
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XVI.
-
-The POPPY and the SUN-FLOWER.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Transplanted from the neighb’ring mead,
-      Which long her presence grac’d;
-    The crimson POPPY rear’d her head,
-      In the rich garden plac’d.
-
-
-II.
-
-    Thence, fann’d by many a gentle gale,
-      Full oft her scent is borne;
-    Both when the ev’ning shades prevail,
-      And at the rise of morn.
-
-
-III.
-
-    At noon, when ev’n without _her_ aid
-      The flow’rs all droop’d around;
-    CLYTIE, bright PHŒBUS’ love-sick maid,
-      With all _his_ glories crown’d,
-
-
-IV.
-
-    Still turning to his orb her face,
-      Survey’d th’ intruding guest;
-    And, foe to ev’ry sleepy pow’r,
-      The stranger thus address’d;
-
-
-V.
-
-    “Long have we seen each field-flow’r bloom
-      “Our cultur’d gardens shame:
-    “Which, hither brought, triumphant rise,
-      “And share our nobler fame:
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “Thou, drowsy POPPY, too, at last,
-      “Our rival dost appear,
-    “Replete with drugs, whose pois’nous strength
-      “Corrupts the ambient air.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “But think not here, insulting weed!
-      “(Fair CERES’ hate and bane)
-    “Thy drowsy magic shall prevail,
-      “To blot our brighter reign.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Go, seek thy fields; with noxious weeds
-      “Divide detested sway:
-    “Or, where thy slumbers nought disturb,
-      “Shun the glad face of day.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “Whilst I, to PHŒBUS ever true,
-      “Rejoicing in his light;
-    “To the great God his tribute pay,
-      “And check the pow’rs of Night.”
-
-
-X.
-
-    She spoke;—The nodding POPPY then,
-      Serene, made this reply:
-    “Proud flow’r, I envy not thy state,
-      “Nor coat of richest dye.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “What boast’st thou of his genial pow’r,
-      “Who slighted all thy charms;
-    “And, in thy beauty’s brightest noon,
-      “Fled to another’s arms?
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “How didst thou mourn, and how revenge?
-      “LEUCOTHOE[18] speaks thy crime;
-    “Whose odours still to Heav’n ascend,
-      “And shall to latest time.
-
-[18] Apollo having forsaken Clytie for this Nymph; the former, in
-return, informed Leucothoe’s father of his daughter’s amour with
-Phœbus. He thereupon buried Leucothoe alive; but Phœbus changed her
-into a Frankincense Tree; and after this, Clytie being discarded by the
-God, who was beyond measure offended with her, she pined away, and was
-changed into a Sun-Flower.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “Not _Love_, but _Pity_, mov’d high Heav’n
-      “To make thee what thou art;
-    “And place amidst the blooming flow’rs
-      “A Nymph with broken heart.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “Cease then to vaunt thy heav’nly love,
-      “Nor me so much despise;
-    “Full plain th’ advantages appear,
-      “Which from my pow’r arise.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “Me CERES _hates not_; but my seed
-      “Great Nature near her sows;
-    “Where, far unlike a noxious weed,
-      “The beauteous flow’ret blows.
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    “Sleep, gentle God, the ease of grief,
-      “To weary man I bring;
-    “From care and pain the sweetest balm,
-      “Of vig’rous health the spring.
-
-
-XVII.
-
-    “I, to the wretched friendly still,
-      “The mourning captives aid;
-    “My succour to the poor extend,
-      “And ease the love-sick maid.
-
-
-XVIII.
-
-    “Then what Heav’n order’d for the best,
-      “Do thou no longer blame:
-    “Let _me_ old MORPHEUS’ honours share,
-      “Joy _thou_ in PHŒBUS’ flame.
-
-
-XIX.
-
-    “More need I add?—Search Earth around,
-      “And thou shalt truly say,
-    “_More Virtues in Life’s shade will bloom,_
-      “_Than in her blaze of day_.”
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XVII. The Iris & Rose_]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XVIII. The Nasturtium & Wall flower_]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XVII.
-
-The IRIS, or FLOWER de LUCE, and the ROSE.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Yes, there are some who, proudly vain
-      Still boast of others’ due;
-    With empty titles cheat the crowd,
-      And set false shows to view.
-
-
-II.
-
-    Such ever ancient worth disgrace,
-      Make real titles scorn’d;
-    While by bright Honour’s genuine race
-      Those titles are adorn’d.
-
-
-III.
-
-    The fairest of sweet FLORA’S tribe
-      Boast not the proudest name;
-    Nor men, with gaudiest titles deck’d,
-      Are truest sons of Fame.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    What art thou, bold and spreading flow’r,
-      In fields and gardens known;
-    That still assum’st a Monarch’s grace,
-      And claim’st a Pageant throne?
-
-
-V.
-
-    “Genius of nations, guardian pow’rs,
-      “That still on Monarchs wait!
-    “You your own plant shall still protect,
-      “An emblem of your state.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “And, Goddess of the painted Bow!
-      “Still to thy flow’r prove true;
-    “Ally’d to thee, I justly claim
-      “Thy name and colours too[19].
-
-[19] Iris being the name given to the Rainbow.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “Which then of all the painted train
-      “That swell this garden’s pride,
-    “Shall with my honour’d name compare,
-      “Or sway with me divide?”
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    This mark’d the ROSE, a modest flow’r,
-      With maiden blushes bright;
-    Who, vex’d to hear the boaster’s vaunt,
-      Asserts her native right.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “What are thy titles vain, she said,
-      “That claim superior sway?
-    “Or why should all fair FLORA’S tribes
-      “A rule like thine obey?
-
-
-X.
-
-    “False is thy boast; thy title vain
-      “Not Gallia’s self will own;
-    “Whose _real_ LILIES droop and fade,
-      “Where-e’er my flow’rs are known.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “Why IRIS?—Why by Heav’n’s own bow
-      “Would’st thou thus climb to fame?
-    “Or cannot many a vary’d flow’r
-      “Exert a fairer claim?
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “Plain FLAG thou art;—let that suffice;
-      “With LILIES I contend;
-    “But flow’rs like thine I still regard,
-      “Alike as foe or friend.”
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    The vain pretender heard, abash’d,
-      And hung her drooping head;
-    While to the genial fun her leaves
-      The ROSE expanding spread.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    Her odour strait proclaim’d her queen
-      Of all the smiling flow’rs;
-    While the Bee sought the fragrant breast,
-      And left his honey’d bow’rs.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    Thus to the ROSE the meed was giv’n;
-      FLORA confirm’d her reign;
-    _And worth, like her’s, approv’d by Heav’n,_
-      _Shall Heav’n itself maintain_.
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XVIII.
-
-The NASTURTIUM and the WALL FLOWER.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Against a funny fence below
-      The fair NASTURTIUM plac’d,
-    Beheld how well its highest tops
-      The fragrant WALL-FLOW’R grac’d.
-
-
-II.
-
-    Without some useful kind support
-      Unable to survive;
-    Ill could she bear another flow’r
-      By the same means should thrive.
-
-
-III.
-
-    At length, one sultry summer’s noon,
-      When radiant PHŒBUS shone
-    On both alike with chearing ray,
-      She envious thus begun:
-
-
-IV.
-
-    “Had I the WALL-FLOW’R’S fragrant scent,
-      “Would I alone thus bloom;
-    “On yonder peak obscurely dwell,
-      “And waste my rich perfume!
-
-
-V.
-
-    “For shame, yield to inferior flow’rs
-      “That strange and uncouth place;
-    “Nor, like some noxious worthless weed,
-      “Nurse there thy beauteous race.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “Besides, _I_ claim the humbler boon,
-      “Against this fence to blow;
-    “While thee the more indulgent Heav’n
-      “May safely place below.”
-
-
-VII.
-
-    She spoke;—the WALL-FLOW’R thus reply’d,
-      “Ambition is not mine;
-    “My native place is still my joy:
-      “Do thou delight in thine.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Full well I know that perils still
-      “On frequent change attend:
-    “And they oft spoil their present state,
-      “Who hasty strive to mend.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “Nor less can I _thy_ drift observe,
-      “Who, envious of my lot,
-    “Would’st me of ev’ry help bereave,
-      “Drawn from my native spot.
-
-
-X.
-
-    “Too selfish flow’r, who vainly this
-      “Would’st me of life deprive;
-    “And by my downfall think’st to rise,
-      “And on my ruin thrive.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “Know, that th’ all-chearing lamp of day
-      “On both alike bestows
-    “His sov’reign gifts; for All his light
-      “Without distinction glows.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “Is not that source of genial fire
-      “Sufficient _both_ to warm,
-    “That thou should’st thus unkindly seek
-      “Thy quiet neighbour’s harm?
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “And what if I consenting give,
-      “Ambitious! thy desire?
-    “Were I now low in ashes laid,
-      “Say, could’st thou climb the higher?
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “For shame, th’ ungen’rous wish forego,
-      “Rejoice in others’ joy;
-    “And lengthen’d scenes of double bliss
-      “Shall all thy hours employ.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “For know, where Envy’s pow’r prevails,
-      “Peace, Love, and Joy, retire:
-    “Her vot’ries feel eternal pains,
-      “And burn with ceaseless fire.”
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    _Felicity with Concord dwells;_
-      _And ev’ry joy of peace_
-    _Heav’n’s sacred hand still bounteous gives,_
-      _And blesses the increase._
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XIX. The Lapland Rose._]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XX. The Deadly Nightshade._]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XIX.
-
-THE LAPLAND ROSE.
-
-
-I.
-
-    A wand’ring youth, by Fortune led
-      To bleakest northern shores,
-    Beyond the track of Russian wilds,
-      Where Lapland’s tempest roars;
-
-
-II.
-
-    Who twice the Arctic circle pass’d,
-      And view’d bright HECLA’S[20] flame;
-    At length, through many a waste of snow,
-     To fair NIEMI[21] came.
-
-[20] A Volcano in the North, whose sides are covered with snow.
-
-[21] The Mountains of NIEMI are in the neighbourhood of a lake of the
-same name, which is said by the inhabitants to be frequented by the
-immortal Genii.
-
-
-III.
-
-    And thence where TENGLIO[22] rolls his stream,
-      Survey’d the prospect round;
-    Beheld its banks with verdure deck’d,
-      And blushing roses crown’d.
-
-[22] This River is bordered with Roses of as fine a bloom as those
-which grow in our gardens.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    Stuck with the scene, a while he paus’d,
-      As lost in sweet delight;
-    And ey’d the fairest of the train
-      In native beauty bright.
-
-
-V.
-
-    Yet, as he view’d the stranger flow’r,
-      He deeply musing cries,
-    “How strange that beauties such as thine
-      “’Midst climes like these should rise!
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “Thee no bright youth nor gentle fair
-      “Alas! shall e’er caress;
-    “Nor splendid southern suns shall warm,
-      “Nor genial gales shall bless!”
-
-
-VII.
-
-    On hollow winds, o’er distant plains,
-      The murm’ring accents flew;
-    NIEMI’S mountains caught the sound,
-      Which from the lake his shadows drew.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    And now before the youth confess’d
-      The Genius of the clime
-    Appear’d; who thus instructive spoke,
-      In awful strains sublime;
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “Fond youth, who view’st that beauteous flow’r,
-      “So luckless in thy fight!
-    “Forbear to mourn her lonely state,
-      “Whom these rude climes delight.
-
-
-X.
-
-    “Unrival’d here she sweetly blooms,
-      “And scents the ambient air;
-    “Nor deems her brightest beauties lost,
-      “While foster’d by _my_ care.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “Nor envies she the gaudy tribe
-      “Beneath the southern skies,
-    “That bloom in some luxurious bow’rs,
-      “Where mingled sweets arise.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “The child of bounteous Nature! here
-      “She bids her bloom dispense
-    “Fresh sweets, the trav’ler’s soul to chear,
-      “And glad his weary’d sense.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “Her no bright youth nor gaudy fair
-      “Shall COURT _but to_ DESTROY;
-    “But Lapland’s simple swains shall view,
-      “With _unaffected joy_;
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “And, oft’ as yon’ returning Sun
-      “Illumes our northern sphere,
-    “Well pleas’d shall trace these flow’ry banks,
-      “And pay their homage here.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “Let _others_ seek where spacious meads,
-      “Or painted gardens glow;
-    “Despise _my_ solitary flow’rs,
-      “And live the slaves of show.
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    “But know, high Heav’n in desart wastes
-      “Can bid rich Spring to bloom;
-    “And waken Nature into life,
-      “From Winter’s dreary tomb.
-
-
-XVII.
-
-    “The gracious Pow’r who rules on high,
-      “Bids ALL his blessings share;
-    “And ev’ry creature of his hand
-      “Is govern’d by his care.
-
-
-XVIII.
-
-    “Convinc’d that Providence will thus
-      “For ALL alike provide;
-    “_Learn to restrain Affliction’s tears,_
-      “_And check the boast of Pride_.”
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XX.
-
-The DEADLY NIGHTSHADE[23].
-
-
-I.
-
-    “Detested weed, enrag’d, I said,
-      “That spread’st thy poison’d train
-    “In this fair land, midst blooming flow’rs,
-      “Which grace the happy plain!
-
-
-II.
-
-    “Thy baleful root most surely springs
-      “From deep Tartarean shade;
-    “By envious Dæmons nurs’d below,
-      “In Stygian gloom array’d.
-
-[23] The juice of this weed was generally supposed to be used in
-Enchantments—There are however several sorts of it, all of which are
-not esteemed deadly; but only this mentioned here, the juice of whose
-berries so intoxicated the army of Sweno the Danish King, being mixed
-in their liquor, that they became an easy prey to the Scotch army,
-which surprised and cut most of them to pieces.
-
-
-III.
-
-    “Thee CIRCE, and MEDÆA too,
-      “In black enchantment us’d;
-    “With baneful plants most fitly mix’d,
-      “In hellish steams suffus’d.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    “Ah! why does Parent NATURE form,
-      “Such works, _her_ works to spoil;
-    “And by _her own hand_ teach mankind,
-      “Infernal arts and guile?
-
-
-V.
-
-    “Say, fell Enchantress of the plain,
-      “The foe of human-kind?
-    “Say for what crimes man’s hapless race
-      “From thee such evils find!
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “Oh! quit the woods, the plains, the fields,
-       “Where health and plenty bloom:
-    “Retire to rocks and desart-wilds,
-      “Or shade the Murd’rer’s tomb.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “Or rather haste to PLUTO’S realm;
-      “_There_ hide thy hated head,
-    “And flourish still unrival’d there;
-      “Where Styx’ nine streams are spread.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “But _here_ may ev’ry healing flow’r
-      “In prime of beauty bloom:
-    “To sick’ning Man restoring health,
-      “And shedding rich perfume!”
-
-
-IX.
-
-    I ceas’d—The Flow’r indignant heard;
-      And all its leaves display’d
-    A deep’ning gloom, which flung around
-      _A double_ NIGHT OF SHADE.
-
-
-X.
-
-    “Insulting Man!” she trembling cry’d,
-      “Of creatures most unjust;
-    “Still taxing Nature with those faults,
-      “Sprung from _his_ evil lust.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “The poison’d Snake, the noxious Weed,
-      “Earth’s venom’d juices drain;
-    “And, more than all yon’ fragrant flow’rs,
-      “Enrich with health the plain.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “Nay of _my race_ grows many a plant,
-      “Which, of rich gifts possest,
-    “The sage Physician culls with care,
-      “To ease the Patient’s breast.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “Let Man his own wild passions tame,
-      “And hush them into Peace;
-    “MEDÆA’S wand, and CIRCE’S cup,
-      “Were innocent to _these_.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “For ME, great Nature’s high behest;
-      “Contented I fulfil;
-    “Nor dream that aught by _her_ ordain’d,
-      “Can ever end in _ill_.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “_Go thou, fond youth, and_ VIRTUE’S _charge_
-      “_With equal care obey:_
-    “_Then ev’ry Weed shall prove a Flow’r,_
-      “_To strew thy destin’d way._”
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XXI. The Crown Imperial and Heartsease._]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XXII. The Water Lily._]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XXI.
-
-The CROWN IMPERIAL and HEART’S-EASE.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Lo! where from Persia’s warmer clime,
-      And ancient Bactria’s land;
-    With interwoven purple wrought,
-      The ensign of command,
-
-
-II.
-
-    The CROWN IMPERIAL rears aloft
-      His rich and gorgeous head,
-    And, pointing to the distant sky,
-      Bids all his glories spread.
-
-
-III.
-
-    Beneath, in humbler station plac’d,
-      The fair VIOLA grew,
-    Which the lov’d name of _Heart’s-Ease_ bears,
-      Whose pow’r can Care subdue.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    The purple monarch swell’d with ire,
-      Indignant to behold
-    The flow’ret blooming near his side,
-      And thus his anger told;
-
-
-V.
-
-    “Rash flow’r, seest thou my aweful state,
-      “That speaks the garden’s king?
-    “See’st thou th’ Imperial Crown that decks,
-      “And gems that round me spring.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “I from the East my lineage draw,
-      “Where chief of flow’rs I rise;
-    “And amidst thousands raise my fame,
-      “Ev’n to the starry skies.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “Go then, base daughter of the earth!
-      “Near some vile cottage grow;
-    “Nor give thy paltry race to rise
-      “Where my bright blossoms blow!”
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    The sweet VIOLA inly mourn’d
-      The boaster’s ill-plac’d pride;
-    And, while this answer she return’d,
-      The flow’r with pity ey’d:
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “Great is the boast, I own, she said,
-      “Of pomp and scepter’d pow’r;
-    “But _greater_ are the blessings found
-      “In life’s serener hour.
-
-
-X.
-
-    “_Thee_ purple honours still adorn,
-      “Which teach thy leaves to shine;
-    “But to breathe fragrance on the day,
-      “Proud plant! was never _thine_.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “That _I_ am stranger to thy race,
-      “The cause is plain to tell;
-    “For when did _Heart’s-Ease_ ever deign
-      “With _crowned heads_ to dwell?
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “ME still in life’s more humble vale
-      “Most certain will you find;
-    “There most _my_ simple sweets are known,
-      “Where Fortune proves least kind.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “Go learn, _That neither wealth nor pomp_
-      “_True blessings can bestow_;
-    “_On sweet_ CONTENT _alone await_
-      “_All joy and bliss below_.”
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XXII.
-
-THE WATER LILY.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Within a crystal riv’let bright,
-      Whose sides, with verdure crown’d,
-    From shelving banks reflected wide
-      The landscape bord’ring round,
-
-
-II.
-
-    A WATER LILY peaceful rear’d
-      Her lovely, graceful head;
-    And on the gently-heaving stream
-      Her beauteous flow’rs were spread.
-
-
-III.
-
-    Thence she beheld the banks with flow’rs
-      Of various kinds array’d;
-    And nodding trees, that far dispers’d
-      Their over-hanging shade;
-
-
-IV.
-
-    For there the lofty Poplar grew,
-      Still mingling white with green;
-    And there the rustling Aspin too
-      With trembling leaves was seen.
-
-
-V.
-
-    The Willow, nodding o’er the brook,
-      Drinks deep the stream below;
-    Cowslip and Primrose near at hand,
-      And purple Iris glow.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    The LILY saw, and to the lake
-      Thus soft-complaining cry’d,
-    While gentle ZEPHYRS bore the sound,
-      Which spread from side to side:
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “Ah hapless lot! while _others_ bloom
-      “On yonder happy shore,
-    “Amongst their kindred tribes—_my_ fate
-      “Here lonely I deplore.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Condemn’d amid this watry waste
-      “For ever to remain;
-    “Nor taste the joys which _others_ know
-      “On yonder flow’ry plain.”
-
-
-IX.
-
-    The GODDESS OF THE WATER heard,
-      And Anger mov’d her heart;
-    “How dar’st thou thus affront (she said)
-      “The Pow’r by which thou ART?
-
-
-X.
-
-    “Those other trees and flow’rs thou see’st,
-      “ALL sprang from Mother Earth:
-    “And grateful tribute ALL return
-      “To Her who gave them birth.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “While _thou_, alas! should _I_ withdraw
-      “The least of this my store;
-    “Shalt call on _other_ Pow’rs in vain,
-      “And sink, to rise no more.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “Beauteous thou art, nor meanly priz’d:
-      “Then lay no blame on me;
-    “Nor seek what, though it _others_ bless,
-      “Must surely ruin _thee_.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “But still revere this facted truth,
-      “_Whatever may betide_;
-    “_What Heav’n decrees is always_ BEST,
-      “_And all is_ BAD _beside_.”
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XXIII. The Lover & Funeral Flowers_]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XXIV. The Field & Garden Daisy_]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XXIII.
-
-The FUNERAL FLOWERS.
-
-
-I.
-
-    As, lonely walking o’er the plain,
-      With solemn step and slow,
-    A hapless swain, at midnight hour,
-      Went forth to vent his woe;
-
-
-II.
-
-    His hand the sweetest flow’rets fill’d
-      That glow’d with beauty’s bloom;
-    Now destin’d with their richest tints
-      T’ adorn his LAURA’S tomb.
-
-
-III.
-
-    Lo! there each mournful flow’r he strew’d,
-      Which vernal FLORA bears;
-    With frequent sighs dispers’d them round,
-      And water’d them with tears.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    There was the VI’LET’S purple hue,
-      And HYACINTHUS seen;
-    The leaves with monarch’s names inscrib’d,
-      And plaintive notes between.
-
-
-V.
-
-    Sweet ROSEMARY, and many a plant
-      In Eastern gardens known;
-    And Lover’s MYRTLE, which the Queen
-      Of Beauty deigns to own.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    A Sage, who wander’d there alone
-      In the dank dews of night,
-    To gather plants of mystic pow’r,
-      Beneath the moon’s pale light,
-
-
-VII.
-
-    With scornful smile, and eye askance,
-      The hapless youth survey’d;
-    Who paid the last sad tribute there
-      To the departed maid.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “And what! (said he) shall those sweet flow’rs,
-      “Which sinking life can save,
-    “And plants of aromatic scent,
-      “Adorn a _dreary grave_?
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “For shame, fond youth! learn Nature’s gifts
-      “With better skill to prize.
-    “Attend her precepts; read them here:
-      “Be _frugal_, and be _wise_.”
-
-
-X.
-
-    He ceas’d; the sighing youth reply’d,
-      “To LAURA’S shade I give,
-    “Unblam’d, each emblematic flow’r,
-      “Which _she_ first taught to live.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “And frequent here fair FLORA’S train
-      “_Uncull’d by_ ME shall bloom;
-    “And, nurs’d by bright AURORA’S tears,
-      “Diffuse their rich perfume.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “Then urge me not, with narrow mind,
-      “To wrong the dust below;
-    “But rather THOU expand thy heart,
-      “And gen’rous tears bestow.”
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    Thus as he spoke, the REDBREAST mild,
-      The friend of human-kind,
-    Wide scatter’d leaves o’er the low mound,
-      And on the turf reclin’d.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    While PHILOMEL with plaintive notes
-      Funereal dirges sung
-    O’er LAURA’S tomb, who oft’ in life
-      Had mourn’d _her_ ravish’d young.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    And vain (she sang) was Wisdom’s lore,
-      That taught the heart to hide;
-    And vain the empty idle boast
-      Of Philosophic Pride.
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    The flow’rs more sweetly seem’d to smile
-      Reviving at her lay;
-    And sweeter scent, and fresher green,
-      The swelling leaves display.
-
-
-XVII.
-
-    The Sage stood check’d, the solemn song
-      Such virtue could impart;
-    He dropp’d a tear, to pity due,
-      That humaniz’d the heart.
-
-
-XVIII.
-
-    The “graceful softness of the soul”
-      He learn’d thenceforth to prize;
-    And own’d, _where_ NATURE _touch’d the Heart,_
-      _’Twas_ FOLLY _to be_ WISE.
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XXIV.
-
-The FIELD and GARDEN DAISY.
-
-
-I.
-
-    In fields, where Thames her swelling wave
-      Translucent pours along;
-    Where many a blooming green retreat
-      Inspires the poet’s song;
-
-
-II.
-
-    A mead with native beauty crown’d,
-      Extends its verdant bed;
-    Where fragrant Field-flow’rs wildly bloom,
-      In sweet confusion spread.
-
-
-III.
-
-    It chanc’d a sportive youth had there
-      A GARDEN DAISY rear’d,
-    Which ’midst the tribe of wilder sort
-      Full haughtily appear’d.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    “Away! (she cry’d) ye meaner train,
-      “Whose leaves no culture know;
-    “Respect the Cultivated Flower,
-      “That _deigns_ in fields to grow!
-
-
-V.
-
-    “And chiefly _thou_ that boast’st _my_ name,
-      “Though surely _not ally’d_;
-    “Claim kindred with thy native weeds,
-      “Nor flourish by _my_ side!
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “I know thee not;—thy form I scorn;
-      “In native splendour bright
-    “IRIS has dipp’d my painted leaves,
-      “All beauteous to the sight.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “Whilst THOU!—but vainly spent the time,
-      “On such a flow’r bestow’d:
-    “Disdain’d by all the Garden’s tribes,
-      “_My_ late belov’d abode.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Know ME your queen, ye low-born race,
-      “Confess superior sway;
-    “Nor longer in my presence bloom,
-      “But tremble, and obey.”
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “To foul reproach (the DAISY said)
-      “What answer can we yield,
-    “When _cultivated flow’rs_ insult
-      “The natives of the field?
-
-
-X.
-
-    “Yet what art THOU? proud gaudy toy,
-      “Descended but from me,
-    “Who mourn too late I e’er gave birth
-      “To such Ingrates as thee!
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “I have my use, and oft’ am seen
-      “The village maids t’ adorn:
-    “Go prouder _thou_, in gardens bloom,
-      “And be the great-ones scorn.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “But here, proud flow’r, thy date is short,
-      “The soil denies thee room;
-    “And ev’n this spot, where now thou swell’st,
-      “Shall shortly prove thy tomb.”
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    The Sun gaz’d hot, the foreign field
-      No moisture would supply;
-    Soon did the boaster droop her head,
-      And wither, fade, and die.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    What need I more?—The village swain,
-      While on the sod reclin’d,
-    Feels the plain Moral of the Tale
-      Deep graven on his mind.
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XXV. The Pinks and Arbutus._]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XXVI. The Cockscomb & Sweetwilliam._]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XXV.
-
-The PINKS and ARBUTUS.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Virtue, the growth of ev’ry clime,
-      Alike should be rever’d;
-    Whether from distant regions brought,
-      Or in _our_ country rear’d.
-
-
-II.
-
-    Rome, the great mistress of the world,
-      Such height had ne’er attain’d;
-    The train of worth in ev’ry land
-      Had her proud sons disdain’d.
-
-
-III.
-
-    From _foreign_ arms, from _foreign_ arts,
-      Her _native_ glory rose;
-    And more than half her boasted state
-      She borrow’d from her foes.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    Vain is that boast of selfish pride,
-      Which deems no worth is found,
-    But in the narrow sphere confin’d
-      Of its own native ground.
-
-
-V.
-
-    Though not to foreign lands, untaught,
-      We need for Virtue roam;
-    Yet real Virtue, nurs’d abroad,
-      Should be rever’d at home.—
-
-
-VI.
-
-    On fair Ierne’s happy shore
-      A tall ARBUTUS plac’d,
-    Bloom’d near a sweetly-cultur’d spot,
-      By PINKS unnumber’d grac’d,
-
-
-VII.
-
-    ’Twas on the border of that lake[24],
-      Where vary’d prospects rise,
-    Of sunny hills, o’er-hanging rocks,
-      And low’ring misty skies;
-
-[24] The Lake of Killarney, most romantically situated in the county of
-Kerry, in Ireland, where the Arbutus tree is found, which bears a most
-beautiful blossom, and a fruit sometimes used for food, and which is
-supposed to have been transplanted thither from Italy.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    SELINA, wand’ring near the Lake,
-      The foreign tree survey’d;
-    “And bloom’st thou ’midst our native Flow’rs?”
-      Exclaim’d the redd’ning maid—
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “O could these hands thy root remove!
-      “But since that may not be,
-    “Far I’ll transplant my fragrant Race,
-      “Now plac’d too near to thee.”
-
-
-X.
-
-    She said—when strait before her stood
-      An ancient Hermit grave;
-    With silver’d locks and streaming beard,
-      The tenant of the cave;
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “Desist, fond maid! the Hermit cry’d,
-      “Lest these thy favour’d flow’rs
-    “Should die, if hastily remov’d
-      “From these their well-known bow’rs;
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “What if the tall ARBUTUS share
-      “Th’ indulgence of thy land;
-    “Do not his sweetly fragrant flow’rs
-      “As fair a lot demand?
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “Nor let IERNE’S children grieve,
-      “Where foreign worth is shown;
-    “But learn with cultivating care
-      “To make that worth _their own_.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “For thee, fair maid—the patriot flame
-      “Still nourish in thy breast:
-    “But let that flame by Reason’s rules
-      “Be modell’d and repress’d.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “Know that thy country’s weal depends
-      “Not on _herself_ alone;
-    “But each assisting hand that strives
-      “To fix fair Freedom’s throne.
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    “Commerce and Stores from other lands
-      “Your glories still increase;
-    “Encourage then the golden stream,
-      “And ev’ry art of peace.
-
-
-XVII.
-
-    “Nor foreign Flow’rs, nor foreign Plants,
-      “Deny a fost’ring place;
-    “When those fair Plants or blooming Flow’rs
-      “Bring Profit, Sweet, or Grace.
-
-
-XVIII.
-
-    “Reject alone the idle weed,
-      “That blooms but to destroy;
-    “To cultivate the rest with care
-      “Your utmost skill employ.”
-
-
-XIX.
-
-    He ceas’d;—the Nymph her task forsook,
-      And still together bloom
-    The beautous Tree, and fragrant Flow’rs,
-      Whence ZEPHYRS steal perfume.
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XXVI.
-
-The COCK’S COMB and SWEET WILLIAM.
-
-
-I.
-
-    High rose the Sun, the fleeting hours
-      Verg’d tow’rds meridian height,
-    And all around the glitt’ring scene
-      Was lost in floods of light.
-
-
-II.
-
-    The flocks and herds, that graz’d awhile,
-      Now left the sunny glade;
-    And in the stream their fervour cool’d,
-      Or sought the shelt’ring shade.
-
-
-III.
-
-    Beneath a high projected fence,
-      At this irradiate hour,
-    The sweet _Dianthus_[25] humbly blew,
-      A solitary Flow’r.
-
-[25] Another name for Sweet William.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    But where a thousand mingling sweets
-      Diffus’d a rich perfume;
-    The gaudy COCK’S COMB, idly vain,
-      Appear’d in all its bloom.
-
-
-V.
-
-    And “Matchless excellence!” he cry’d,
-      “With ME what can compare?
-    “The sweetest of the vernal train
-      “Were never half so fair.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “My crested head erect I rear,
-      “And bloom with matchless grace;
-    “The brightest hue my leaves adorns,
-      “Of all the flow’ry race.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “Nay, to immortal pow’rs a-kin,
-    “Descent from Heav’n I claim[26];
-    “And from eternal-blooming Flow’rs
-    “Derive my honour’d name.”
-
-[26] This Flower is a kind of Bastard Amaranth.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    I view’d the Plant, its form admir’d;
-      When a more modest Flow’r
-    Engag’d my eye, where soft it rose
-      Within its lonely bow’r.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “Sweet tribes, (he sang,) fair FLORA’S care,
-      “What beauties you display!
-    “My breast expands with social joy
-      “To see your bright array.
-
-
-X.
-
-    “To _me_, the last of flow’rets, give,
-      “Within this pale to grow:
-    “And give the west winds gentle breath
-      “O’er this my bed to blow.”
-
-
-XI.
-
-    He spoke—the pow’rs indulgent heard,
-      Soft ZEPHYRS fann’d the trees;
-    And o’er his humble earthy bed
-      Diffus’d a gentle breeze.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    Smit with the fragrance of the scent
-      The winds rejoicing bore;
-    I own’d the pow’r of modest worth,
-      Whose rival charm’d no more[27].
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    Say, Fair-ones, is the Moral plain,
-      In easy Fable drest?
-    It is but this—_To Merit true,_
-      _Throw Coxcombs from your breast_.
-
-[27] The Cock’s Comb being a gaudy Flower, without any agreeable smell
-to recommend it.
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XXVII. The Jasmine and Hemlock._]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XXVIII. The Carnation and Southernwood._]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XXVII.
-
-The JASMINE and HEMLOCK.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Tow’ring aloft, a JASMINE sweet
-      In a rich garden stood;
-    And thence, nurs’d by wild Nature’s care,
-      The neighb’ring HEMLOCK view’d.
-
-
-II.
-
-    High o’er the pale the angry flow’r
-      Rear’d her affronted head;
-    And, glowing in her vernal bloom,
-      She thus contemptuous said:
-
-
-III.
-
-    “Say, worse than Aconite, pernicious weed!
-      “How dar’st thou here to grow;
-    “And thy detested head advance,
-      “Near where my blossoms blow?”
-
-
-IV.
-
-    The angry HEMLOCK strait reply’d,
-      “Thou proud insulting thing!
-    “Vain is thy pride, and vain thy boast,
-      “Though deck’d by gaudy Spring.
-
-
-V.
-
-    “Thou, in the blooming garden plac’d,
-      “May’st please the roving eye.
-    “I in some field or secret shade
-      “My useful aid supply.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “Nay, scornful flow’r! what I declare,
-      “Great Nature’s self will own:
-    “Ordaining all things fair and good,
-      “When once their use is known.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “Go ask of genial BACCHUS’ tree,
-      “Where purple clusters glow;
-    “(Whose juice produces gen’rous wine,
-      “The balm of human woe.)
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Go ask what various ills attend,
-      “That precious balm’s abuse:
-    “Ills that too surely ev’n exceed
-      “Those of my baneful juice.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “Yet baneful _where_? when _mis-apply’d_;
-      “So is each blessing too.
-    “This lesson learn, and know thyself;
-      “Nor rob me of my due.
-
-
-X.
-
-    “Me the grave Leech, who, greatly wise,
-      “Turns Nature’s volume o’er,
-    “Oft snatches from my low abode,
-      “And places in his store.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “There, amongst health-bestowing plants,
-      “He ranks my honour’d name;
-    “And, whilst he well employs _my_ pow’rs,
-      “Exalts _himself_ to fame.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “Thus death and life alike are _mine_,
-      “Neither to _thee_ belong:
-    “Though oft’ by poets most admir’d,
-      “The theme of idle song.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “Be thou so still; but ne’er despise
-      “Those gifts thou canst not share:
-    “But keep this maxim in thy heart,
-      “_The_ USEFUL _is the_ FAIR.”
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    She said—abash’d the JASMINE heard,
-      And hung her drooping head;
-    She saw, _That_ NATURE’S _works were good_,
-      And all her Boasting fled.
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XXVIII.
-
-The CARNATION and SOUTHERNWOOD.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Rich in a thousand beauteous dyes,
-      The sweet CARNATION stood;
-    While with a proud disdainful eye
-      The SOUTHERNWOOD she view’d.
-
-
-II.
-
-    “Great is thy Pride,” the flow’r exclaim’d,
-      “To place thee near my side;
-    “For ev’n to grow in this retreat,
-      “Argues thy matchless pride.
-
-
-III.
-
-    “Say, what art thou, thyself no flow’r,
-      “That dar’st intrude thee here;
-    “’Midst plants fit for a prince’s bow’r,
-      “Flow’rs fit for kings to wear?
-
-
-IV.
-
-    “Whate’er I am,” the Plant reply’d,
-      “My post I well maintain;
-    “And chearful lend my needful aid,
-      “Where thine, alas! were vain.
-
-
-V.
-
-    “Say, could thy flow’rs of brightest dye
-      “_Infection’s_ force withstand?
-    “Ah! what could all thy beauties do,
-      “If plagues laid waste the land?
-
-
-VI.
-
-    “Mean as I am, the task is mine,
-      “To purge th’ unwholesome air;
-    “To clear the brain, the blood refine,
-      “And seat HYGEIA[28] there.
-
-[28] The Goddess of Health.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    “Nay farther still;—thyself shalt own
-      “How oft’ I’m join’d with thee;
-    “And thy bright blossoms brighter bloom,
-      “Because they’re plac’d by me.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “Are not the _various tints_, which deck
-      “This scene, the Florist’s pride?
-    “ME then, imperious! venerate
-      “For pow’rs to thee deny’d.—
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “Say, if each warbler of the grove
-      “Should chuse the self-same strain;
-    “Would the tir’d ear the concert please,
-      “Or wish to hear again?
-
-
-X.
-
-    “Nature, who made us what we are,
-      “Did diff’rent gifts impart;
-    “And gave to all their portion due
-      “Of her all-plastic art.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “Contented then in diff’rent spheres
-      “Unenvying let us move:
-    “For this must still most grateful be
-      “To THOSE who rule above.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “_Me_ let _thy_ sweetest fragrance grace,
-      “Ev’n from the early May;
-    “And _thee_ will _I_ in gardens fair
-      “With sov’reign balm repay.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “For, thus united while we stand,
-      “We need to ask no more;
-    “While mutually we take and give,
-      “We double all our _store_.”
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    Prudent she said;—her rival, pleas’d,
-      Adopts the smelling green;
-    And one for _Use_, and one for _Show_,
-      Together now are seen.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    Learn hence, _That various talents giv’n_
-      _Mean variously to bless:_
-    _And thus on mutual wants kind Heav’n_
-      _Builds mutual Happiness_.
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XXIX. Field Flower & Rosemary._]
-
-[Illustration: _Fab. XXX. Judgement of the Flowers._]
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XXIX.
-
-The ROSEMARY and FIELD FLOWER.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Upon the fam’d HYPANIS’ banks,
-      By chance, in days of yore,
-    A tuft of Rosemary there grew,
-      Which scented all the shore.
-
-
-II.
-
-    And near at hand a Field-flow’r rear
-      Its variegated head;
-    And view’d full many a spacious track,
-      With dreary desarts spread.
-
-
-III.
-
-    But where the river roll’d its stream,
-      Unnumber’d insects swarm’d;
-    Which rose in myriads into life,
-      By PHŒBUS’ influence warm’d[29].
-
-[29] On the banks of the river Hypanis, there is a sort of insect,
-whose life is said only to extend from the rising to the setting of the
-sun.
-
-
-IV.
-
-    The same revolving day that saw
-      Their scene of life begun,
-    Beheld them sink to dust again,
-      With the declining sun.
-
-
-V.
-
-    And one of these, at noon-tide hour,
-      (The hardiest of his race)
-    Urg’d to the Field-flow’r bright and gay
-      His quick and eager pace.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    But when no fragrant scent he found
-      In that same flow’r so bright;
-    He to the sweeter Rosemary
-      Immediate urg’d his flight.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    The _lasting_ aromatic plant,
-      His speed with wonder view’d;
-    Advis’d him other flow’rs to seek,
-      Nor on her spot intrude.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    “And how can I for _thee_ (she said)
-      “My happier pow’rs display,
-    “Or with my lasting flow’r support
-      “The insect of a day?
-
-
-IX.
-
-    “Sure Nature form’d thy race in sport,
-      “Continual to destroy;
-    “Nor ever meant thy race to taste
-      “One pure, substantial joy.”
-
-
-X.
-
-    “Not so,” the wiser Insect cry’d,
-      “My high descent I claim
-    “From PHŒBUS’ self—you cannot more,
-      “Nor wish a higher name.
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “What if to me a shorter date
-      “By Nature’s law is giv’n;
-    “Each moment that I live, _t’ enjoy_,
-      “Is all I ask of Heav’n.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “Beneath the Mushroom’s spacious shade,
-      “Or in the mossy bow’r,
-    “Or still at noon as _now_ reclin’d,
-      “Beneath some fragrant flow’r.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “Know, that as much of life I trace
-      “In one revolving sun;
-    “As yonder herds, whose destin’d course
-      “Full many an age has run.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “For equal are great Nature’s gifts,
-      “And but an idle dream;
-    “The boast of time, which glides away
-      “Swift as the passing stream.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “Well to employ the present hour,
-      “Sweet plant, be ever thine;
-    “LIFE’S little day, _when once elaps’d_,
-      “_Shall seem as short as_ MINE.”
-
-
-
-
-FABLE XXX.
-
-The JUDGEMENT of FLOWERS.
-
-
-I.
-
-    Far from the busy haunts of men,
-      Far from the glaring eye of day;
-    Still Fancy paints, with Nature’s pen,
-      Such tints as never can decay.
-
-
-II.
-
-    Hast thou not seen, at ev’ning hour,
-      When PHŒBUS sunk beneath the main,
-    Reclin’d in some sequester’d bow’r,
-      The village maid, or shepherd swain?
-
-
-III.
-
-    Hast thou not mark’d them cull with care
-      Some favour’d flow’ret from the rest,
-    To deck the breast, or bind the hair,
-      Of those they priz’d and lov’d the best?
-
-
-IV.
-
-    And still expressive of the mind
-      The emblematic gift was found;
-    Whether to mournful thought inclin’d,
-      Or with triumphant gladness crown’d.—
-
-
-V.
-
-    Near AVON’S banks, a cultur’d spot,
-      With many a tuft of flow’rs adorn’d,
-    Was once an aged shepherd’s lot,
-      Who scenes of greater splendor scorn’d.
-
-
-VI.
-
-    Three beauteous daughters bless’d his bed,
-      Who made the little plat their care;
-    And ev’ry sweet by FLORA spread
-      Attentive still they planted there.
-
-
-VII.
-
-    Once, when still ev’ning veil’d the sky,
-      The sire walk’d forth, and sought the bow’r;
-    And bade the lovely maids draw nigh,
-      And each select some favour’d flow’r.
-
-
-VIII.
-
-    The first, with radiant splendor charm’d,
-      A variegated Tulip chose:
-    The next, with love of beauty charm’d,
-      Preferr’d the sweetly-blushing Rose.
-
-
-IX.
-
-    The third, who mark’d, with depth of thought,
-      How those bright Flow’rs must droop away,
-    An Ev’ning Primrose only brought,
-      Which opens with the closing day.
-
-
-X.
-
-    The sage a while in silence view’d
-      The various choice of flow’rs display’d;
-    And then (with wisdom’s gift endu’d)
-      Address’d each beauteous list’ning maid!
-
-
-XI.
-
-    “Who chose the Tulip’s splendid dyes,
-      “Shall own, too late, when that decays,
-    “That, vainly proud, not greatly wise,
-      “She only caught a short-liv’d blaze.
-
-
-XII.
-
-    “The Rose, though beauteous leaves and sweet
-      “Its glorious vernal pride adorn:
-    “Let her who chose beware to meet
-      “The biting sharpness of its thorn.
-
-
-XIII.
-
-    “But _she_, who to fair day-light’s train
-      “The Ev’ning flow’r more just preferr’d;
-    “Chose real worth, nor chose in vain
-      “The one great object of regard.
-
-
-XIV.
-
-    “Ambitious _thou_! the Tulip race
-      “In all life’s vary’d course beware:
-    “Caught with sweet Pleasure’s rosy grace,
-      “Do _thou_ its sharper thorns beware.
-
-
-XV.
-
-    “_Thou_ prudent still to Virtue’s lore,
-      “Attend, and mark her counsels sage!
-    “She like _thy flow’r_ has sweets in store,
-      “To soothe the ev’ning of thine age.”
-
-
-XVI.
-
-    He ceas’d—attend the moral strain,
-      The Muse enlighten’d pours;
-    Nor let her pencil trace in vain
-      The Judgement of the Flow’rs.
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-<h1>FABLES OF FLOWERS,<br />FOR THE FEMALE SEX.<br />
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-I survey the divine simplicity and blooming attractions, that are
-displayed amongst the variegated tribes of the vegetable creation, I
-cease to wonder, that <i>Queens forego, for a while, the compliments of
-a nation, or withdraw from the glitter of a</i> <span class="smcap">court</span>, <i>to
-be attended with the more splendid</i> <span class="smcap">equipage</span> <i>of a</i>
-<span class="smcap">bed</span> <i>of</i> <span class="smcap">flowers</span>;
-where nothing seems wanting but the power of <i>speech</i>, to make
-them become the most pleasing Monitors.</p>
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-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_viii">[Pg viii]</span>
-How far the Author of the following Fables, written for the amusement
-of an exalted Personage, may have succeeded, in descriptive fancy, as
-a poet: it is hoped, that, the moral and refined admonitions which may
-be found to breathe, from the fragrant bosom of a silver-robed Lily, or
-a blooming Jonquil, will throw a veil over any poetical inaccuracies;
-<i>for who can paint like Nature?</i></p>
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-<p>As to the novelty of the plan, I cannot but hold myself, in a great
-<span class="pagenum" id="Page_ix">[Pg ix]</span>
-measure, indebted to an ingenious Lady<a id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>, well known in the literary
-world. And can only say, that I have found both health and recreation
-in the completion of it; by sharing some of the sweetest hours of
-contemplation, among the lovely subjects of the following pages.</p>
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-<p class="author">THE AUTHOR.</p>
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-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xi">[Pg xi]</span></p>
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-      <td class="tdr" colspan="2"><span class="smcap">Page</span></td>
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-      <td class="tdl"><big><b>ZEPHYRUS and FLORA</b></big></td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_3">&nbsp;1</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">FABLE I.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Hollyhock and Lily of the Vale</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_25">24</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">II.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Aloe in Blossom</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">III.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Rose and Hornet</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">IV.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Sensitive Plant</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">V.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Hawthorn and the Primrose</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">VI.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The White Rose and the Red</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">VII.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Crocus</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">VIII.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Anemone and the Passion Flower&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">IX.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Lily and Narcissus</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">X.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Ivy and Sweet Briar</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_73">73</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XI.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Violet Transplanted</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_77">77</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XII.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Tulip and the Amaranth</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_81">81</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XIII.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Honey Succkle and Youth</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_87">87</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XIV.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">Belinda and the Blue-Bell</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_92">92</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XV.
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_xii">[Pg xii]</span></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Larkspur and the Myrtle</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_97">97</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XVI.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Poppy and the Sun-Flower</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XVII.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Iris and the Rose</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_109">109</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XVIII.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Nasturtium and the Wall Flower</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_113">113</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XIX.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Traveller and Lapland Rose</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_119">119</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XX.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Deadly Night Shade</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_124">124</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XXI.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Crown Imperial and Hearts Ease</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_129">129</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XXII.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Water Lily</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_133">133</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XXIII.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Funeral Flowers and the Lover</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_137">137</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XXIV.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Field and Garden Daisy</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_142">142</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XXV.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Pinks and Arbutus</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_147">147</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XXVI.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Cockscomb and Sweet William</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_152">153</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XXVII.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Jasmine and Hemlock</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_157">157</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XXVIII.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Carnation and Southernwood</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_161">161</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XXIX.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Rosemary and Field Flower</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_165">165</a></td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdc" colspan="2">XXX.</td>
-   </tr><tr>
-      <td class="tdl">The Judgment of the Flowers</td>
-      <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_169">169</a></td>
-   </tr>
- </tbody>
-</table>
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-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span></p>
-<p class="f200"><b>ZEPHYRUS</b></p>
-<p class="center"><b>AND</b></p>
-<p class="f200"><b>FLORA:</b></p>
-<p class="f120"><b>A VISION.</b></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <img src="images/i013.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="486" />
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4"><span class="bigfont">A</span><b>S</b> late I wander’d o’er the flow’ry plain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">Where Cambrian Cluyd pours his silver tide,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Amidst the pleasures of fair Plenty’s reign,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">And blushing flow’rs and fruits on ev’ry side:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Soft sigh’d the west winds, murm’ring o’er the dale,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">Whose ev’ry charm rose fresher from the breeze;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The lofty hills more boldly kiss’d the gale,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">Which skimm’d their tops, and shook the wavy trees.</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span></p>  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">The sun descending, shot his golden beams</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">Askance, with many a cloud his ev’ning throne</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Adorn’d; while mountains, woods, and lucent streams,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">With the last blushes of his radiance shone.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Far stretching hence, Cambria’s rough heights I view,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">Where Liberty long since forlorn retir’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Left fairer climes, and skies of brighter hue,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">And, but at last, triumphantly expir’d:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">And wide around me wound the fertile vale<a id="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">Fit theme and subject of the poet’s song;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Whose num’rous beauties load the passing gale,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">Whose breath repeats them, as it glides along.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Bright Phœbus sunk, dim twilight now succeeds,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">Still gleaming dubious with uncertain ray,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">While tremblingly among the vocal reeds</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">The ev’ning breezes still more faintly play.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</span></div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Amid this beauteous, soft, and flow’ry scene,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">On a high bank, all listless, I reclin’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Whose shelving sides were crown’d with lively green,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">By tufted trees and bord’ring flow’rs confin’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Here, while the landscape faded on my sight,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">Wild Fancy’s eye still brighter scenes supply’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">I view’d not the last track of parting light,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">Nor mark’d the fanning breezes as they dy’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">At length, Imagination, roving maid,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">Though gentle sleep had fetter’d all my pow’rs</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">In golden chains, my busy soul convey’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">To other landscapes and immortal bow’rs.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Methought I stood amidst a garden fair,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">Whose bounds no sight of mortal eye could trace,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent4">Situate mid-way, betwixt earth, seas, and air,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent6">Unmark’d by Time, uncircumscrib’d by Space.</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Not half so sweet was that delightsome dale,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which to my waking view appear’d so bright;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For <i>here</i> did never-ceasing suns prevail,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With mildest sweetness temp’ring heav’nly light.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Spring breath’d eternal glories o’er the land:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And gentlest winds, o’er fragrant lawns that blow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Nurs’d beauteous buds unset by mortal hand,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And op’ning flow’rs that without planting grow.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Serene the heav’ns, save where a cloudy shrine,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Big with cœlestial plenty, sail’d on high,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Show’r’d Spring’s own roses from her seat divine,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And drew a purple radiance o’er the sky.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Meanwhile, soft music echoing from each grove,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Tun’d to enchanting notes most soft and clear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That breath’d the soul of harmony and love,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Thrill’d the rapt breast, and charm’d the list’ning ear.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And still the while, with voices loud and sweet,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The warbling birds in dulcet concert join’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The waters murm’ring flow with cadence meet,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Low answer’d by the gently whisp’ring wind.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">These themes of wonder silent I survey’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Attentive hanging on each dying sound;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Pleas’d with the glories which I saw display’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And scenes of joy and pleasure op’ning round.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Yet still methought a certain want appear’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Of some to own this spot, so heav’nly fair,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Else were each charming flow’ret vainly rear’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To bloom unnotic’d to the desart air:”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">XVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Else, were in vain these soft melodious strains,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which the whole soul of harmony inspir’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Pour’d to the wild woods and the lonely plains,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Though worthiest still by all to be admir’d.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XIX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Such were creation’s first imperfect hours,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">When the gay heav’ns in early beauty shone,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And earth, bedeck’d with beasts, birds, plants, and flow’rs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Spread all her bosom to the genial sun;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Unfinish’d still the mighty work appear’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Till Man, the lord of all, was bid to rise;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With open brow his face divine who rear’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And sought with upright look his native skies.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XXI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Thus as I paus’d, still louder swell’d the notes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">From ev’ry bush, and brake, and echoing hill;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">While choirs cœlestial seem’d to tune their throats,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And, with glad voice the chearful chorus fill.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XXII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then, by some magic pow’r swift snatch’d away,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Ev’n to the midst of that delightful land,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I view’d at once all clad in bright array,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A thousand Genii of the gardens stand.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XXIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But far above all these a seat was plac’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Dress’d with each flow’r that ev’ry season knows,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Whose vary’d tints, in gem-like order, grac’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The rural theatre which gradual rose.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XXIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For lo! the Genius of each blooming flow’r</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Brought his own fav’rite with peculiar care,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To deck the arch of this inchanted bow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And, bowing at the throne, he plac’d it there.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XXV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">A sight more beauteous ne’er did eye behold,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Than these bright tribes that glitter’d on the day;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And, rich in purple dyes and flaming gold,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Did their bright bosoms to the sun display.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XXVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Such was the throne;—but oh! what pen can trace</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The heav’nly beauties of the matchless Two,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who, glowing with each bright cœlestial grace,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Sat there aloft, conspicuous to the view!</div>
-        <span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">XXVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The first, a youth of sweet and gentle mien,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With many a wreath and knotted garland crown’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Whose beauteous visage glow’d with charms serene,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And on whose shoulders purple wings were bound:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">XXVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">These when he spreads, reviving Nature pours</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Her copious treasures of immortal bloom;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Whilst through vast realms he scatters vernal stores,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And from his downy pinions shakes perfume.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XXIX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">His name was <span class="smcap">Zephyrus</span>; and next him sat</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The beauteous goddess of the blooming year,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The constant partner of his rural state,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To heav’n and earth, to gods and mortals dear;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XXX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="smcap">Flora</span>, bright pow’r, who sheds a thousand sweets</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">O’er thousand lands, what time her gifts appear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">What time her consort with his kisses greets</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Her coral lips, and wakes the rising year.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XXXI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Her beauteous face was deck’d with youthful pride,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Her graceful form in flamy robes was dress’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And ev’ry charm wild Nature could provide,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Adorn’d her head, and beam’d upon her breast.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">XXXII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Beside the throne, rang’d in fair order, stood</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The various Seasons of the rolling year;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">By all their train of months, weeks, days, pursu’d:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And all their various symbols flourish’d here.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">XXXIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">First came the <span class="smcap">Spring</span>, led by the rosy Hours,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With all the Loves and Graces in her train;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Deck’d with her wreath of never-fading flow’rs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Diffusing odours o’er the smiling plain.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">XXXIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Next <span class="smcap">Summer</span> came; his cheeks with ardour fir’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With his own blushing fruits and harvests crown’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Before whose face the infant Spring retir’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And with her roses strew’d the russet ground.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XXXV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Stain’d with the grape’s press’d juice, with steadier pace,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Still looking backward on preceding time,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ripe <span class="smcap">Autumn</span> next succeeded in his place;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Scatt’ring rich fruits, the growth of ev’ry clime.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">XXXVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Last <span class="smcap">Winter</span> comes, with heavy step and flow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A hoary captive bound in icy chains;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With haggard eyes, and mantle dipp’d in snow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Who still of cold in Spring’s own realms complains.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent18">XXXVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Not one of these, but from their various store</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Some off’ring meet to lovely Flora pay;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Not one of these, but with that off’ring more,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And her soft reign most willingly obey.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">XXXVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ev’n <span class="smcap">Winter’s</span> self, with look averted, throws,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">His thin-strewn flow’rets on the goddess’ shrine;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ev’n <i>his</i> cold bosom for a moment glows,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">When he beholds her radiant form divine.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">XXXIX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But now the Genii of each plant and flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Rang’d in fair order, wait her high commands;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And each, approaching her delicious bow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In expectation of her verdict stands.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XL.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For many of the <i>garden’s</i> painted race,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And some that with their colours deck the <i>field</i>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Rivals in wealth, in beauty, and in grace,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Had wag’d high wars, unknowing how to yield.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XLI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">All claim’d preferment, and each one could boast</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Of some bright beauty or perfection dear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Which should induce mankind to prize <i>her</i> most,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And to preferment make her title clear.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XLII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And some, of empty shew and titles vain;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Alas! that Pride so many should deceive!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Claim’d o’er their kindred plants and flow’rs to reign:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And of their birthright others would bereave.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">XLIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Crown Imperial, and the spurious Flow’r</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which boasts of royal arms and royal mien<a id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a>;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The warlike Plant that claims immortal pow’r<a id="FNanchor_4" href="#Footnote_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And that gay lady call’d the Meadow’s Queen.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XLIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">All these, and more, that scorn’d a subject state,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Rose to the claim of high imperial sway:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Forgetting—to be <i>good</i> was to be <i>great</i>—</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">They rose to rule, unpractis’d to obey.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XLV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Others again for <i>beauty’s</i> meed contend,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Chief amidst whom appear’d the Tulip race;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">A painted tribe, born only to contend</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">For praise, where <i>all</i> is giv’n external grace.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XLVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Alcæa proud<a id="FNanchor_5" href="#Footnote_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a>; and lovely Venus’ joy,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">That does from adverse winds its title claim<a id="FNanchor_6" href="#Footnote_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a>;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The once conceited, self-admiring Boy<a id="FNanchor_7" href="#Footnote_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Whose love prepost’rous gave a flow’r a name.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">XLVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The proud Carnation dipp’d in brightest dyes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Who still with thirst of praise and glory burns;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With her whose mirrour cheats deluded eyes<a id="FNanchor_8" href="#Footnote_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And she that still to her lov’d Phœbus turns<a id="FNanchor_9" href="#Footnote_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a>.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">XLVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">There, with their num’rous chiefs of diff’rent hues,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The painted Cock’s Comb, and his lofty train,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Their beauties vaunting, to the rest refuse</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To share the glories of their gaudy reign.—</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">XLIX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The judges sat, each sep’rate claim was heard,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">While some for <i>rule</i>, and some for <i>praises</i>, sought;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And some had been disgrac’d, and some preferr’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">As in the goddess’ mind their various pleadings wrought</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">L.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But her lov’d consort, gently whisp’ring, said:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“What means my Queen, on these to cast her sight,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who have but pride or lust of sway display’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Nor brought their real worth or virtues to the light?”</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">How many absent now, more fair than these,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With greater fragrance in lone valleys blow?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Or, if the garden’s flow’ry tribe more please,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Where do the Rose and lovely Vi’let glow?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Lily where, and all that num’rous host,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Who claim true praise to innate virtue due;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Or do they <i>merit least</i> who <i>loudest boast</i>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And with false glare impose upon the view?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For sure, of all who feel my genial gale,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Or to the sun their fragrant breasts unfold,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The best and sweetest that on earth prevail,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Yet do I not in this fair court behold.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He said; and <span class="smcap">Flora</span>, rising from her throne,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Bade present search for ev’ry one be made:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who, though their off’rings on her altar shone,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Their modest haste had from the court convey’d.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Strait they return’d:—The lovely blushing Rose,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The Lily ever chaste and ever fair,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Vi’let sweet with purple tints that glows,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And Myrtle green, that scents the ambient air:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With many more, grateful to sight and smell,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">By bounteous heav’n with matchless charms endu’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That in the fragrant meads or gardens dwell,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Or which wild wastes from human eyes seclude.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">These by their Genii now in modest guise,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Excus’d from pleading ’midst the mingled throng.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Claim’d but the tribute all allow’d their prize,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Nor sought their own just praises to prolong.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Yet, these once seen, abash’d their rivals stand;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And would have fled, but <span class="smcap">Flora</span> this deny’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who, rising graceful, with her out-stretch’d hand,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Thus briefly to th’ assembled pow’rs apply’d:</div>
-              <span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LIX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Genii of gardens, meads, and sylvan scenes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Attendant still in <span class="smcap">Flora’s</span> vernal train,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Say what this ardent, fond contention means,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Why strive you thus for pow’r, and strive in vain?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Are you not all beneath our sceptre blest;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Say, do not all confess our gentle sway?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then seek not one to triumph o’er the rest,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">But each in peaceful order still obey.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LXI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">So <i>all</i> the glories of my reign shall share,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">So <i>all</i> be still in poets songs renown’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">So shall my <span class="smcap">Zephyr</span> still with gentlest air,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Wave o’er your beds, with bloom eternal crown’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LXII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And <i>you</i>, who not for pow’r, but beauty’s charms,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">For gaudy tints, still fiercely would contend;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">What envious fire such gentle bosoms warms?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And where, alas! must the mad contest end?</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LXIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Each has her charms, and each peculiar worth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To all in various portions duly giv’n,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">By secret Nature working at its birth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The lavish bounty of indulgent Heav’n.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LXIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Each has her charms:—but view the blushing Rose,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Behold the beauties of the Lily fair;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Few boast of equal excellence to those,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Yet with their modest merit none compare.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LXV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">These, therefore, we prefer; and though no Queen</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Besides Ourselves we will to hold the reign;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Yet, for their true desart conspicuous seen,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">We rank them foremost on the flow’ry plain.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LXVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hear, and obey; and if aught else abide,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To raise dispute among your orders bright;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Still by true merit let the cause be try’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And specious <i>shew</i> yield to more solid <i>right</i>.”</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">LXVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She spoke;—the Seasons, and the winged Hours,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Confirm’d her voice; then breath’d a rich perfume,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Which <span class="smcap">Zephyr</span> scatter’d wide o’er all the flow’rs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And deck’d their leaves with more than mortal bloom.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">LXVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then, his lov’d consort straining in his arms,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With gentlest touch salutes her swelling breast;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who strait shone forth in more refulgent charms,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">As <span class="smcap">Juno</span> when by vernal <span class="smcap">Jove</span> caress’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LXIX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And sudden joining in a mazy dance,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The airy phantoms of the scene appear’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Some to the sprightly timbrel did advance,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">While some their clear harmonious voices rear’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LXX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But One among the rest, who view’d me stand</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Intent, and gazing on the prospect near,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Came forth, and gently touch’d my trembling hand,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And bade me mark his words, and nothing fear:</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LXXI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And seest thou not (said he) these vary’d flow’rs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Contending still for beauty or for sway?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Such are the contests which employ man’s hours,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In life’s short, busy, transitory day.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LXXII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For what is gaudy beauty’s short-liv’d bloom,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The pomp of pow’r, of riches, or of pride;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Soon bury’d in the undistinguish’d tomb,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which all their boasted pomp at once must hide?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">LXXIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="smcap">Virtue</span> alone survives, immortal maid!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Her truly amaranthine flow’r shall blow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">When all the rest are wrapt in dusky shade,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And laid in dark and dusty ruins low.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">LXXIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hear, and attend!—improve the moral strain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">So may’st thou sail safe through life’s dang’rous sea;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">So from these scenes thou wisdom may’st attain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And <span class="smcap">Flora</span> prove <span class="smcap">Minerva’s</span> self to thee.”</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent20">LXXV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He ceas’d; and well I mark’d the prudent lore,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And much revolv’d his saying in my mind;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Bent all the mystic moral to explore,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">By this romantic, splendid scene design’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">LXXVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But, the full concert swelling on my ear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The bands of Sleep dissolv’d, away he flies;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">At once the train of phantoms disappear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And on my waking sight the vision dies.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent19">LXXVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">No longer now near <span class="smcap">Flora’s</span> bow’r I stood,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">But view’d with op’ning eyes the rising day;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then down the Valley fair my path pursu’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And homeward took my solitary way.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
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-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span></p>
-<p class="f200"><b>FABLES OF FLOWERS.</b></p>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. I.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i036_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="478" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Holly Hock &amp; Lily of the Vale</i></b></p>
-
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. II.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i036_b.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="482" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Aloe in Blossom</i></b></p>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span></p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-  <h2 class="nobreak">FABLE I.<br />
-  <span class="h_subtitle">The HOLLYHOCK and the<br /> LILY of the VALE.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">’T</span><b>WAS</b> early morn, Sol’s radiant beams</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Illum’d the landscape round.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The dew-drops glitter’d on the day,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And gem-like deck’d the ground.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Within the garden’s cultur’d walks</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A Hollyhock there grew;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And there the Lily of the Vale</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Kept humble distance due.</div>
-       <span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Elate with pride, the gaudy flow’r</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Expands its swelling breast;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And, joying in the vernal scene,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The <span class="smcap">Lily</span> thus address’d:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“What dost thou here, mean paltry thing,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Go blow in yonder field;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor thus disgrace fair <span class="smcap">Flora’s</span> tribes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That heav’nly beauties yield.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Go, with thy faint and sickly hue;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Some chearless vale adorn;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But here intrude not on our reign,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Nor drink the dew of morn.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Whilst I with heighten’d colours glow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In Summer’s liv’ry gay;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Imbibe the softest tints of light,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And glitter on the day.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Me yonder golden sun shall warm,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“At morn and noon-tide hour;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And me his ev’ning beams attend,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Like his own fav’rite flow’r.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor yonder Rose, nor Bacchus’ Plant,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Which twining near me grows,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Can boast more excellence than me,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Or brighter dyes disclose.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Hence thou! nor this fair spot profane,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Where fairer flow’rets blow;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Return again to shades obscure,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And there neglected grow.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The <span class="smcap">Lily</span> heard, with decent grace,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">That scorn’d the boaster’s pride;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then from her lone, unenvy’d bed</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She thus in brief reply’d;</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“From vaunting loud what fame is gain’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To raise the boaster’s name;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Or might not yonder blushing Rose</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Exert a fairer claim?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And many a flow’r that round thee blows,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In the bright garb of Spring;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Or, rich in elegant perfumes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That scent the Zephyr’s wing.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The vine, with purple clusters deck’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Shall soon rich sweets bestow;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Whilst thou, a barren flow’r at best,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Art only made for show.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For <span class="smcap">me</span>;—what Nature form’d, I am;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“I envy not thy pride;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor seek to raise a greater boast,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“By Providence deny’d.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Yet in some dark and dang’rous hour,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“When tempests rude assail;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ev’n thou may’st wish the humbler state</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Of <span class="smcap">Lily of the Vale</span>.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Safe from her humble spot she said,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And view’d the changing sky;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From op’ning clouds the thunders break,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The livid lightnings fly.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Full on the garden’s lofty wall,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The flow’rs exalted place,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The fires æthereal swiftly fall,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And rend its solid base.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And now the boaster’s trust and pride</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Assur’d her overthrow;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Her glories buried in the dust,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">By one destructive blow.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The <span class="smcap">Lily</span> view’d the ruin’d flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And strait this Moral drew;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>Beauty and Pride are idly vain,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>But Praise is Merit’s due</i>.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>Daughters of Albion, timely wise,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Attend the moral tale;</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>And imitate with prudent care</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><span class="smcap">The Lily of the Vale</span>.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span></p>
-  <h2 class="nobreak">FABLE II.<br />
-  <span class="h_subtitle">The ALOE in <span class="smcap">Blossom</span>.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<span class="bigfont">F</span><b>ROM</b> warmer climates early borne,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Where beams the god of light;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“How gaily blooms yon lofty plant,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In native colours bright!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The root, the plant, the leaf, the flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Alike our wonder raise;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And all confess the fragrant stock,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Renown’d in ancient days.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Some say, but one revolving age</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Beholds thy beauties spread;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And rear aloft to genial suns</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Its highly blooming head.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But thou, like Merit, kindly nurs’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“An early spring wilt know;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“While, check’d by rigid, frowning skies,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Thy gems forget to glow.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Emblem of Genius rarely known,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And still more rarely giv’n;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“To reap the good itself imparts,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And share the gifts of Heav’n.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Say, glorious stranger, rear’d erewhile</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In distant, sunny lands;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Can either India more bestow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Than Albion’s isle commands?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“In western and in southern climes</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Too long hast thou been plac’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And India’s sands, and Afric’s wilds,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Thy beauteous presence grac’d.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Deign then, O sov’reign plant, thy balm,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“On this our land bestow;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And give thy flow’rs in all their grace</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And lustre here to blow.”—</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Guardian Sylph, that watch’d the flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Confess’d before me stood;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And shook his bright and sunny locks,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And thus my suit withstood:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Cease, cease, he cry’d, such boons to ask,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“As scarce deserve a name;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“While Albion, favour’d from above,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Can greater blessings claim.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Still, still, their gems and spicy store,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Let either India boast;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And Afric vaunt the precious sands,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That glitter on her coast.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Not these, nor all the hidden wealth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That earth or sea possess;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Can match those richer gifts of heav’n,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Which fair Britannia bless.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Peace, Freedom, Wealth from farthest shores,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“By golden commerce brought;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“All these are hers, and ev’ry good,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“By happiest nations sought.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor <i>this</i> alone; here Genius blooms,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“A <i>Flow’r</i> excelling <i>mine</i>.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor asks a whole revolving age,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In glories to refine.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Here too the Fair, with beauty bright,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The hearts of heroes warm;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Those <i>human blossoms</i> genial blow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And put forth ev’ry charm.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Cease then, <i>nor envy other climes</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Their beauties thinly strewn</i>;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>But learn with decent pride to prize</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>The blessings of your own</i>.”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. III.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i050_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="472" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Rose &amp; Hornet</i></b></p>
-
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. IV.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i050_b.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="482" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Sensitive Plant</i></b></p>
-</div>
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span></p>
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-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE III.<br />
-<span class="h_subtitle">The ROSE and the HORNET.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">D</span><b>EEP</b> in a lone sequester’d vale,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Where many’ a streamlet flows;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And nurs’d by many’ a gentle gale,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Soft bloom’d a damask Rose.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Summer’s suns, the Zephyrs bland,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">All own’d her peerless queen;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The honey’d Bee, Spring’s sweetest child,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Oft’ sought her breast serene.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Her beauties op’ning on the day,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With ev’ry grace were crown’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Imbib’d the golden solar beam,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And deck’d the desart ground.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Daughter of Nature, still she blow’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Where human face ne’er shone;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And spread her blossoms to the view</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">But of the Sun alone.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Pride of the East, a brighter glow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Beyond our garden’s bloom,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Bade her with heighten’d beauty blush,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And scatter rich perfume.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Her rudely rushing through the air</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">An angry <span class="smcap">Hornet</span> ’spy’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Vow’d to enjoy the heav’nly flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In all her blooming pride.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Bold son of heat, with rudest haste,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">His course he strait address’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To rifle all her charms in spite,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And riot on her breast.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He search’d each leaf, each blossom wounds</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With rude unhallow’d rage;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Yet nothing could his search explore,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">His passion to assuage.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The beauteous flow’r, though wildly rent,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">No sweetness would afford;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But hurt by many a vengeful thorn,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">His rashness he deplor’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">At length, thus baffled and deceiv’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Enrag’d, he silence broke;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And now of ev’ry hope bereft,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">He thus insulting spoke;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Vain gaudy flow’r, they term thy breast</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Engaging, bright, and fair;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Who seek thy bosom, ne’er shall find</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Or joy or sweetness there.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The Bee indeed, thy fav’rite, still</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Says, Honey springs from thee;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Yet nought but trouble, care, and pain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Hast thou bestow’d on me.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Then boast no more thy beauteous form</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That still excites desire;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Since <i>Thorns</i> alone thou canst bestow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To quench a lover’s fire.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then thus the Rose,—“Intruder vile!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Who thus would’st force employ;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Though arm’d with pow’r; know ’tis not thine</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To taste substantial joy.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The Bee, who sips each sweet that glows</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In lawn or shady bow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Tastes all the honey as he flies,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“But never wounds the flow’r.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Whilst thou, both impious and unwise,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Of all our tribes the scorn:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For ev’ry violated sweet</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Shalt always meet a thorn.”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE IV.<br /><span class="h_subtitle"> The SENSITIVE PLANT.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">R</span><b>ARE</b> plant, or flow’r, or nymph-like tree,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With human sense endu’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Why dost thou shrink beneath the touch,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And bear but to be <i>view’d</i>?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Say does some Hamadryad chuse</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In that green stem to live?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And to her highly favour’d shrine</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">This strong sensation give?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Well for thy sake their ancient oaks</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The wood-nymphs might forsake;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And in thy purer bosom with</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Their lov’d abodes to make.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Yet why indignant from each hand</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Alike dost thou retire?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Does ev’ry touch, replete with ill,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Alike thy hate inspire?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Too cautious nymph! well might’st thou deign</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To some thy breast unfold;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sure those would <i>worship</i> at the <i>touch</i>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Who <i>love</i> when they <i>behold</i>.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Shrunk in herself, with modest grace</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The Plant thus fair reply’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Whate’er my source, my maiden state</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“But ill agrees with pride<a id="FNanchor_10" href="#Footnote_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a>.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“In purity alone I joy;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“I seek no other fame,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But that which from chaste wishes grows,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And suits a virgin’s name.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nymphs of the woods, the groves, and streams,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Too oft have found the smart</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Of looser fires, which, once indulg’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Will rankle in the heart.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Me no rude touch shall e’er profane;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That guard if once I leave,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Of ev’ry virtue well I know</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Mankind would me bereave.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor this alone, know, curious youth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“A thorny mail I own;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Foe to the rash unthinking hand</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That violates my throne.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And ev’n within this spotless breast</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Does deadly venom spring;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“So he that ravishes the sweets,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“May meet the mortal sting.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Go then, and range from flow’r to flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Amidst the gaudy train:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But sacred be my homely plant,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To bright-hair’d Vesta’s reign.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“She ceas’d; nor I the flow’r profan’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To chastity devote;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But on the sand with rustic pen,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“This sacred moral wrote:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>The Nymph who slights strict virtue’s guard,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Shall quickly meet a snare;</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>And Pleasures, rais’d on Virtue’s bane,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Are fatal, as they’re fair.</i></div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
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-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</span></p>
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. V.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i062_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="476" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Hawthorn &amp; Primrose</i></b></p>
-
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. VI.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i062_b.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="482" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The White Rose &amp; Red</i></b></p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE V.<br />
-<span class="h_subtitle">The HAWTHORN and the PRIMROSE.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">B</span><b>ENEATH</b> a wild and rustic shade,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Impervious to the view;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In the sweet-smiling month of May,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A lovely Primrose grew.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The gentle child of early Spring</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">By bounteous <span class="smcap">Flora</span> crown’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With vernal beauties born to deck</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The unfrequented ground.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The brightest dye, the sweetest scent,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Her yellow leaves could yield;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Were spent upon the empty air,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Nor e’er adorn’d the field.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For round her grew a bushy brake,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With many’ a thorn beset;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And many’ a weed obscene and foul</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Deform’d the green retreat.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But high above the rest advanc’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A spreading Hawthorn rose;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Whose lengthen’d branches overhung</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The seat of her repose.</div>
-  </div>
-
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Her gem-like blossoms wide display’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The darkling dell adorn;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With grateful fragrance kiss the wind,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And drink the dew of morn’.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Her the lone Rose in mournful guise</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Full many a day had ey’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And thus at length one summer’s eve</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She all impatient cry’d.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ah Thorn! the bane of all my hopes!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Ah Thorn! that wound’st my peace!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Still must I view thy branches spread,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And still my woes increase:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“I who long since had, happier far,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Been by some fair caress’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Had drunk the radiance of her eye,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And panted on her breast?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“What have I done, O wretch! that still</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“This evil treatment meets;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Or hast thou aught in lieu to give</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To those who lose my sweets?”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She said:—the Hawthorn thus reply’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Fond pageant of an hour!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Art <i>thou</i> displeas’d because <i>I</i> bloom,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Though shelter’d by my pow’r?</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And know’st thou not that but for <i>me</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Thy boasted bloom were vain;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“By grazing herds trod under foot,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And level’d with the plain?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>Thee</i> I protect; <i>myself</i> am known</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Among the warlike race;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Whom Nature arms with prompt defence</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Of most excelling grace.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor idly I these weapons wear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Nor idle is my bloom;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“One arms me for myself and thee;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The other sheds perfume.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And oft as this returning month</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Adds vigour to the year;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Crown’d with my gems in rustic dance</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The nymphs and swains appear.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Me the fleet hare, and tim’rous fawn,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Seek at their greatest need;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“They rest secure beneath my shade,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And on my bounty feed.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But most the plaintive Philomel,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Sweet warbler of the grove,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Joys ’midst my branches to repose,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And sing her hapless love.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Against my thorns her bosom plac’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“She strains her tuneful throat;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And by my useful aid exalts</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Each sweetly trilling note.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XIX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Sacred to <span class="smcap">Flora</span>, of her train</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Although no flow’r am I;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And born to flourish many a moon,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“When thou shalt fade and die.”</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Cease then, nor envy this my state,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Which must <i>thy own</i> defend;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The thorns I bear shall save thy flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And prove thy surest friend.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XXI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">So spake the <span class="smcap">Hawthorn</span>, justly wise;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The <span class="smcap">Rose</span> unansw’ring heard:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I caught the Moral, as it rose;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And thus its sense appear’d:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XXII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>Life’s humble vale is most secure;</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Cares on th’ exalted wait:</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>Yet those who well the weak protect</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Deserve</i> <span class="smcap">unenvy’d</span> <span class="smcap">State</span>.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE VI.<br />
-<span class="h_subtitle">The WHITE ROSE and the RED.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">C</span><b>ONTENDING</b> beauties, whom the doom</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Of Fate has still assign’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Two fragrant rival flow’rs to blow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And scent the western wind;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The <span class="smcap">White Rose</span> and the <span class="smcap">blushing Red</span>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Each one the garden’s pride,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With equal grace their leaves display’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And flourish’d side by side.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The <i>first</i> of spotless beauty vain</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">That sudden caught the eye,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The <i>last</i> attentive praise to gain</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">From her more sanguine dye.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Of sov’reign virtue both well known,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Both favour’d from above:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Still full of glory rose each flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Emblems of gentle Love.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Yet ’twixt their stocks wild feuds subsist,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To work them lasting woe;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Whilst each of other still complain’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And strove her overthrow.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Shame, said the <span class="smcap">Red</span>, on that pale hue,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Which speaks the wearer’s heart;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“That, void of virtue as of grace,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“No colour can impart.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Unlike the blushes that adorn</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“My flow’r with colour meet,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<span class="smcap">Aurora’s</span>, when she wakes the day,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Appear not half so sweet.”</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nay! Shame on thee, the White reply’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Whose blush by <i>guilt</i> was giv’n:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ev’n by the blood of <span class="smcap">Venus</span> shed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Our patroness in Heav’n<a id="FNanchor_11" href="#Footnote_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a>.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Till then like me all Roses were,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Whose ancient stock I claim;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And, void of crime, still reprobate</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Their colour with their name.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“This and much more she angry said:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“But <span class="smcap">Jove’s</span> immortal flow’r<a id="FNanchor_12" href="#Footnote_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Their ill-meant conversation broke,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With soft, persuasive pow’r.</div>
-              <span class="pagenum" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Forbear, she cry’d, in haughty guise,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Reproachful to contend:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Whoe’er the victrix, small her gain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That thus can lose a friend.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ally’d by Nature in your kind,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And diff’ring but in Hue:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“You both possess intrinsic worth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And outward beauty too.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Long was the strife your<a id="FNanchor_13" href="#Footnote_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a>
-                                  ancient state,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In this our isle pursu’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Which many a year drench’d either Rose,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In seas of kindred blood.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Oh! may no more such horrors rise,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Within our Garden’s pale:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But all with emulation strive,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That concord may prevail!</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“May civil feuds and ranc’rous hate</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“From hence be banish’d far;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Foul is that strife, where friends contest,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And wage inhuman war.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Then to this solemn truth give ear;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Where trifles thus are priz’d,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>If two for victory contend;</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>They both will be despis’d</i>.”</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</span>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. VII.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i076_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="466" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Crocus</i></b></p>
-
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. VIII.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i076_b.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="471" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>Anemone &amp; Passion Flower</i></b></p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="FABLE_VII">FABLE VII.<br /><span class="h_subtitle">The CROCUS.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent18">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<span class="bigfont">S</span><b>AY</b>, beauteous flow’r, whose burnish’d leaves</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With Spring’s own livery glow:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“In these bleak months, why dost thou chuse</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“T’ adorn a waste of snow?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent18">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Say, dost thou grudge to summer-skies,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That bloom divinely bright:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Or, are thy beauties clearer seen,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Through this thin Robe of White?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent18">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The Snow-drop, thy companion fair,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“As well thy foil might prove,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And both might bloom in seasons sweet,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And far from hence remove.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent18">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“To Summer’s gayer months benign;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Should’st thou transfer thy reign,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Thy beauties still would brighter glow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And doubly grace the plain.—”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent18">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I said:—the lovely smiling flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The beauty of its race;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And friendly to the sons of men,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Reply’d with decent grace:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent18">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nature’s great book before thee set:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“She blames thee not to scan</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Her works on every side display’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The fit employ of man.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent18">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“When Spring and Summer glad the earth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Ten thousand beauties bloom;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And various flow’rs of brightest hue,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Diffuse a rich perfume.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent17">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Autumn of fruits her tribute brings,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With, yellow harvests crown’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Then laugh the hills and vales, and meads</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With richest plenty crown’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent18">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Winter, at length, with gloomy brow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Comes on to close the year;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“When flow’rs and fruits, and all their race,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Almost extinct appear.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent18">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Yet still some few the gracious Pow’rs</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Permit of these to bloom:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor heap alike all <span class="smcap">Flora’s</span> race,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In one remorseless tomb.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent18">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And soon as to the wat’ry Signs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The Sun retreats again;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Then she my flamy dyes awakes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And bids me deck the plain.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent18">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor less my worth because ’midst snows,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“My head I early rear;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“My flow’r still fresh and lively blooms,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“As at the closing year.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent17">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And know, when Autumn’s Sun prevails,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“My kindred flow’rs arise;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“In forms which heav’nly pow’rs might praise,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And scent the ambient skies<a id="FNanchor_14" href="#Footnote_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a>.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent17">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“These ev’ry dismal gloom dispel;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Which mis’ry can impart,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And joy and gladness still inspire,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And harmonize the heart.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent17">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Meanwhile my earlier station here,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“(Health’s harbinger) I keep,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“To glad the sad and cloudy days;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“When Spring’s soft Zephyrs sleep.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent17">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“So, in the Winter of his days,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Chear thou thy drooping friend;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“His sorrows sooth, his griefs assuage,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And prompt assistance lend.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent16">XVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“So, when his fate and fortune lour,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Thy better aid impart;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And with thy fortune’s warmer ray,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Revive his dying heart.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent16">XVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She said;—the moral well became</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The sweet, propitious flow’r;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I mark’d the lore with heedful mind,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And own’d fair <span class="smcap">friendship’s</span> pow’r.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE VIII.<br />
-<span class="h_subtitle">The <span class="smcap">Anemone</span>
-and the <span class="smcap">Passion Flower</span>.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<span class="bigfont">B</span><b>RIGHT</b> flow’r renown’d in ancient times,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Amidst the Cyprian shades;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The theme of wonder and of praise</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To soft Sidonian maids.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Hail! Goddess-born! hail! thou produc’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“From the bright mingled flood</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Of <span class="smcap">Venus’</span> tears, as bards have sung,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And her <span class="smcap">Adonis’</span> blood.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Rich are thy blossoms in each hue</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That can inchant the fight;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And strike at once the ravish’d eye</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With wonder and delight.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Hail! sacred Plant, born but to shew</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<span class="smcap">Adonis’</span> yearly wound;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“By gentle <span class="smcap">Venus</span> taught to bloom,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With heav’nly beauties crown’d.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I said; when lo; an awful form</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Upon my orgies broke;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And, like some bright cœlestial pow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In lofty accents spoke:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Hence, thou profane; nor wound me thus</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With thy unhallow’d song;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But turn, and see, who blossoms here,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To whom thy strains belong.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The Tyrian Boy, and <span class="smcap">Venus’</span> self;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Before my face shall fly;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Their beauty gone, their lustre lost,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And all their charms shall die.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“I am the only flow’r on earth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With signs divine adorn’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“By me, of Heav’n thus favour’d high,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“All Pagan Gods are scorn’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The purple ring, the bloody crown,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The nails, and guilty spear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“That slew the Lord of Life, behold</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In my symbolic sphere.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Deep to Lethéan shades my root</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Still downward seems to tend;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“As from the Cross’s sacred base,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To Hell it would descend.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Then here thy mis-plac’d rev’rence shew,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And bow before this shrine;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Where Angel Hosts themselves might pray,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And own the Plant divine.”</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She said; <span class="smcap">Adonis’</span> flow’ret bow’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">As to superior pow’r;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">My conscious heart was struck with dread;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Before the wond’rous flow’r.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But whilst intent my rev’rence there</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With honour due to pay;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The heav’ns withdrew their useful light,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And clos’d the hours of day.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I look’d;—no more those signs I saw,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which had my rev’rence drawn:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For ever shut the mirrour stood<a id="FNanchor_15" href="#Footnote_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which thus had grac’d the lawn.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">A while I gaz’d; at length I cry’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And art <span class="allsmcap">THOU</span> mortal too?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Are all <span class="allsmcap">THY</span> sacred beauties fled,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Or faded on the view?</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>Vain then is all external awe,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>That images impart;</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>And</i> <span class="smcap">He</span> <i>that rules above is best</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Recorded in the</i> <span class="smcap">heart</span>.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. IX.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i083_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="467" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Lily &amp; Narcissus</i></b></p>
-
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. X.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i083_b.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="473" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Ivy &amp; Sweet Briar</i></b></p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE IX.<br /><span class="h_subtitle">The LILY and NARCISSUS.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<span class="bigfont">A</span><b>H!</b> hapless discontented flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That yellow leaves adorn;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Who once in life’s gay vernal pride</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The brightest nymphs could’st scorn.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Hard was thy lot, and short thy date,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“By form too fair undone;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Thou met’st, alas! a timeless doom,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Ere half thy course was run.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Unhappy, self-admiring youth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“A lesson thou shalt prove;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“T’ avoid vain pride, that idle toy,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And shun prepost’rous love.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Fair when a boy, now chang’d, no more</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Those beauties can’st thou boast;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But ever sadly may’st repent</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In vain those beauties lost.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“View yonder Lily’s snowy pride,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Sprung from a seed divine;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Then own how much her beauty bright,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Fond flow’r, out-rivals thine!”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With modest grace the Lily bow’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The honours of her head;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Then, with a sweet and modest grace,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She thus instructive said:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Well may they droop, to whom their fate,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With form divinely fair,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“No other, better boon has giv’n</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To make that beauty dear.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For not this glossy white I bear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Delight of human eyes;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor this so graceful form admir’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Are what I wish to prize.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“From heav’nly strain<a id="FNanchor_16" href="#Footnote_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a>
-                                I first arose,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Emblem of chaste desires;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And still that chastity retain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And check unhallow’d fires.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“No empty self-admirer, I</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Would Folly’s trophies raise;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Such <i>virtue</i> then let all applaud,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Not empty <i>beauty</i> praise.”</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She said; and strait the moral found</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Deep entrance in my breast;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="smcap">Beauty</span>, <i>if not with</i> <span class="smcap">Virtue</span> <i>join’d,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Is but an idle jest</i>.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE X.<br /><span class="h_subtitle">The IVY and SWEET BRIAR.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<span class="bigfont">H</span><b>AIL</b>, sacred <span class="smcap">Ivy</span>! hail,” I said,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Devote to <span class="smcap">Bacchus’</span> shrine;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Parent of wreaths, which deck the brows</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Of Gods and men divine.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Why call thee baleful, why despise</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Thy ancient friendly race;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Who clasp the Elm and sturdy Oak</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In mystical embrace.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<span class="smcap">Minerva’s</span> bird too deigns to dwell</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Where thou art frequent seen;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Who loves the calm and peaceful hour,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And courts the deep serene.</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Thou, like the Vine, thy patron’s joy,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Thy nurture wilt receive,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And, twining close with friendly arms,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Wilt still supported live.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“With <span class="smcap">Phœbus’</span> laurel justly thou</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“May’st hold divided claim;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The crown of glorious conquerors,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And meed of deathless fame.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Thus whilst I spoke, the West wind rose,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And scatter’d rich perfume,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From thickets, where sweet Eglantine</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Appear’d in vernal bloom.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Thence a soft voice salutes my ear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which thus complaining said;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Fond youth, to yonder noxious weed</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Why all these honours paid?</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The Vine, ’tis true, will wed her Elm;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“But view the dow’r she brings!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“From yonder steril, forc’d embrace</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Alas! what profit springs?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Like a false friend, too sure, she twines,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Intent but to destroy;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“As Jealousy, Love’s offspring, still</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Impoisons all Love’s joy.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“How poor that <i>virtue</i>, which retires</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To solitude for aid!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>How weak that wisdom</i>, which can shine</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Alone in night’s dun shade!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And what, though gods and godlike men</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Their victor brows have bound</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“With ivy’d wreaths; is then the weed</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“For that alone renown’d?</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Say rather, in that purer age,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“When spotless honour reign’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The victor, seeking only fame,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“A worthless crown obtain’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Hence Ivy, Parsley, Oaken Boughs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Their labour well repaid,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Who not for gain, but glory’s charms,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Their gen’rous strength display’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But thou, regardful of fair truth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And glory justly gain’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Scorn the frail claim of upstarts base,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“By such false means obtain’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>Not borrow’d names from high descent,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Are real honour’s meed;</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>But they alone are</i> <span class="smcap">great</span>, <i>whose fame</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Springs from</i> <span class="smcap">their own</span> <i>fair deed</i>.”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XI.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i098_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="465" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Violet Transplanted</i></b></p>
-
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XII.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i098_b.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="474" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Tulip &amp; Amaranth</i></b></p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XI.<br /><span class="h_subtitle">The <span class="smcap">VIOLET Transplanted</span>.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">W</span><b>HERE</b> fragrant field-flow’rs, gaily spread,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Drink deep the morning dew;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Close by a murm’ring riv’let’s side</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">An humble Vi’let grew.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To her the cultur’d spot unknown,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She bloom’d in her retreat;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And there in native fragrance bless’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Dispers’d a world of sweet.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But yet not undisturb’d her lot</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">By Providence was cast;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For oft’ the herds went grazing forth</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And laid the meadow waste.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And oft’ the trav’ler’s careless step</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Had laid her on the plain;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Yet, by the living streamlet fed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She soon reviv’d again.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">At length a curious Florist saw</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The sweetly blooming flow’r;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Call’d her the field’s and garden’s pride,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And plac’d her in his bow’r.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Here, with a thousand beauties rang’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Her elegance was lost;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">No more the cultur’d spot she grac’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">No more fair <span class="smcap">Flora’s</span> boast.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Abandon’d by his hand, who first</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Her charms with pleasure view’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She in her rise beheld her fate,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And now neglected stood.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She droop’d, she pin’d; the richer soil</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">No nurture could afford;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And oft’ in vain her humbler lot</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The fading flow’r deplor’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The happier tribes that flourish’d round</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Did each her state deride;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Rejoicing that she paid so dear</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">For what they deem’d her pride.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Sun in Cancer flam’d aloft</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Dry thirst her moisture drank;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">In vain she wish’d the lucent flood,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Or shade of osiers dank.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Oppress’d at length she drooping fell,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">As ready to expire;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Her bosom unresisting spread</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To Sol’s consuming fire.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">When lo! from heav’n a gentle rain</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Cool’d that too fervid ray;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And soon reviv’d the beauteous flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which glow’d upon the day.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Her bloom restor’d, renew’d again;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Her former lord attends;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And midst the fairest of the fair</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She numbers now her friends.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Yet, deeply struck with former ills,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">An humble flow’r she blooms;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">No pride that lovely bosom knows,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Whence <span class="smcap">Zephyr</span> steals perfumes;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And to the Fair this useful truth</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She evermore reveals;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>That she best knows her Beauty’s force,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Who modestly conceals</i>.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XII.<br /><span class="h_subtitle">The TULIP and the AMARANTH.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">W</span><b>HERE</b> various beauties mingled rise,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">All grateful to the view;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With variegated beauties bright,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A gaudy <span class="smcap">Tulip</span> grew.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Its leaves with flamy splendour shine,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Mix’d with more vivid green;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And all the tints that deck heav’n’s bow</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Upon the flow’r are seen.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The gently passing vernal air</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The beauteous plant caress’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And <span class="smcap">Zephyr</span> ever pleas’d reclin’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Upon the charmer’s breast.</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">While near at hand the <span class="smcap">gentle flow’r</span>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Call’d <span class="smcap">Amaranth</span>, below</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The blooming guest of <span class="smcap">Jove’s</span> own seats,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Deign’d in her prime to grow.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Yet she with hairs uncouthly deck’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Unlike the Tulip race,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Is not among the flowr’ets found,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Whose colours mark their grace.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">This swell’d her rival’s empty pride,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And, vain of empty shew;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Amaranth askance she ey’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And thus contemptuous spoke;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Of all the flow’rs that deck the lawn,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The progeny of Spring;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And all that of maturer birth</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The later seasons bring:</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Of all that for their fairer forms</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“May raise the justest claim;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Of all that men for beauty prize,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Or from perfection name:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Behold me, first and fairest known,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Still lov’d and valu’d most;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Soft daughter of the vernal hour,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The cultur’d garden’s boast.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Why deign I then so long with <i>these</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To dwell without reserve;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“That scarce, though vulgar eyes they charm,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The name of <span class="smcap">Flow’r</span> deserve?”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The blooming Amaranth, unmov’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Repress’d her forward pride;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The boaster’s arrogance despis’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And wisely thus reply’d;</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Yes, gaudy thing; thy various hues</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Are fine indeed and gay;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Glaring thou glitter’st on the sight,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And flaunt’st it to the day!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“No flow’r around more bright can blow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In beauty more mature!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But tell me, false, frail, giddy thing,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“How long shall that endure?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Me, not the least of <span class="smcap">Flora’s</span> tribe,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Me thou hast laugh’d to scorn,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And deem’d my claim to beauty vain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Although cœlestial born.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For know, though scarce allow’d by thee</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To rank among the flow’rs;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“From Heav’n I draw my high descent,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And bloom’d in Eden’s bow’rs.</div>
-              <span class="pagenum" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And still eternal is my race,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“No frail decay I know;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But, emblem of the first great Spring,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“For ever bloom below.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But thou! the pageant of an hour,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Too quickly shalt deplore</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Those beauties with’ring all away,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Which fade, to charm no more.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>Thou</i>, wretch! no second Spring shalt see,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To renovate thy bloom;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Whilst <i>I</i> survive the stroke of fate,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And triumph o’er the tomb.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Cease then thy boast! in Wisdom’s lore</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Go learn thyself to know;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And by <i>her</i> never-failing rule</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Judge all things here below.</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>A fleeting joy, a fading bloom,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>May charm the ravish’d sight;</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>That only which is truly good,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Is lasting, as ’tis bright.</i>”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XIII.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i110_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="476" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Youth &amp; Honeysuckle</i></b></p>
-
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XIV.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i110_b.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="486" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>Belinda &amp; the Blue-bell or<br />
-            Venus’s Looking-Glass</i></b></p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XIII.<br /><span class="h_subtitle">THE HONEYSUCKLE.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">A</span><b>T</b> height of noon, a youth reclin’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Beneath a woodbine bow’r;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Defended by whose thick’ning shade,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">He pass’d the sultry hour,</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But when mild breezes cool’d the air,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And length’ning shadows rose;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He scann’d with philosophic mind</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The place of his repose.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">High over-head the twining boughs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Where thousand blossoms glow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Of ev’ry beam of light bereave</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The cool alcove below.</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ah! (said the youth) ungrateful still!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And dost thou thus repay</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The bounties of that glorious God,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Who wak’d thee into day?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“While he in his meridian course</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Illumines wide the sky;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Dost thou, O wretch, resist his pow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And all his beams defy?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Unlike to thee, ingrate, behold</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The Sun-flow’r drinks his light;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Lives, to his radiance ever true,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And with him sinks to night.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But like some faithless fav’rite you,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Or some more faithless fair;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Spurn at the very pow’r that grac’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And made you what you are.</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Oh! useful lesson to be learn’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With scanty hand to pour</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Those blessings, which, when once conferr’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Shall ne’er be thought on more!”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Unmov’d the beauteous Woodbine heard,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Then, nodding from on high,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Shook the green honours of her brow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">As thus she made reply:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Vain is the hypocritic plea</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That gilds the selfish end;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And base the poor unfeeling heart</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That ill repays a friend.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For <i>me</i>, not such my care ill-plac’d;—</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“My blessings unconfin’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“I give each gentle breathing air,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And scatter to the wind.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“What if my leaves exclude that Pow’r</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“By whom thou say’st I live;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Yet He beholds me, while I bloom,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“A grateful tribute give.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“My fragrance, nay, that friendly shade,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Which you ungrateful blame,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Are off’rings still to <span class="smcap">Phœbus</span>’ self,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Who nurs’d them with his flame.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“He, for the use of base mankind,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Bade me all these dispense:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For whom I spread these vernal charms,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“So pleasing to the sense.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ungrateful <span class="smcap">thou</span>, thy ill-meant charge</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Take back, so mis-apply’d:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And fairly reason with thy heart,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And check thy selfish pride.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Thou, in my shadows late reclin’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Could’st pass the hours at ease;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>Then</i>, what is <i>now</i> ingratitude,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Thy narrow mind could please.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">XVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Take back the charge; thy maxim too;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent3">With thee let others use:—</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Keep <span class="smcap">thou</span> this moral in thy mind,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>T’ enjoy, but not abuse</i>.”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XIV.<br /><span class="h_subtitle">
-THE BLUE-BELL; or,<br /> <span class="smcap">Venus’s Looking-Glass</span>.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">O’</span><b>ER</b> verdant lawns, and dappled meads,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The young <span class="smcap">Belinda</span> stray’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On ev’ry tree, on ev’ry flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Philosophis’d the maid.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Cowslip, and the Primrose too,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Had oft-times been her theme;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And yellow Crocus’ flaming dyes</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Had ting’d her waking dream.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For, roving o’er the pathless grass,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Or through the woodland wild;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She oft with Contemplation walk’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Bright Fancy’s sweetest child</i>.</div>
-               <span class="pagenum" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Absorb’d and lost in Nature’s maze,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Then rapt from earth she stood;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And, pleas’d, in all his various works,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The great Creator view’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">’Twas smiling May; the op’ning year</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With vernal grace was crown’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And ev’ry plant, and ev’ry flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Diffus’d fresh fragrance round.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From cultur’d gardens far remote</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The beauteous charmer rov’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And listen’d to the birds wild notes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And rang’d those meads she lov’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To court the touch of her fair hand,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Each field-flow’r eager press’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To bask beneath her funny eyes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And kiss her snowy breast.</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Amongst the crowd, a flow’r she ’spy’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Long since well known to fame;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Of <i>Venus’ Looking-glass</i> whose pride</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Assum’d the pompous name.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And how! she cry’d, can’st thou display,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To captivate the sight,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“More than the stream, which yonder rolls</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Its glassy mirrour bright?”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She sought in vain; a bell-shap’d flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With Vi’let blossoms crown’d:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Diffus’d itself with mingled corn,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And purpled o’er the ground.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She pluck’d, but strait away she cast</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The vain pretender far;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Which angry ruffled all its flow’rs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In vegetable war:</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“What had bright <span class="smcap">Venus</span>’ mirrour done,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Thus to be cast aside?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Or how (she said) could <span class="smcap">Venus</span>’ Nymph</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The Goddess’ gift deride?”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Peace! angry thing! <span class="smcap">Belinda</span> said;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Not <span class="smcap">Venus</span> I despise;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But <i>you</i>, who by your own false glass</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Would cheat deluded eyes.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“What boots it thus your high descent,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“As Goddess-born, to claim;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“If not one smallest trace appear</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Of your exalted name?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Go! in yon’ <i>real</i> mirrour view</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The form which you possess;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Then speak but what you <i>really are</i>;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And be your boasting less.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“A Blue-bell of the finest dye,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“You well may be allow’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But <i>Venus’ Looking-glass</i> in vain</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Would cheat a giddy crowd.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The haughty flow’r corrected stood.—</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Attend, ye British fair:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>Let not</i> appearances <i>prevail</i>;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Be</i> real worth <i>your care</i>.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>And know, whoe’er by vain pretence</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Shall others seek to blind;</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>Must stand abash’d, when brought before</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>The</i> <span class="smcap">mirrour of the mind</span>.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XV.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i122_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="477" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Larkspur &amp; Myrtle</i></b></p>
-
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XVI.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i122_b.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="466" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Poppy &amp; Sun-Flower</i></b></p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XV.<br /><span class="h_subtitle">The LARKSPUR and the MYRTLE.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">F</span><b>AV’RITE</b> of <span class="smcap">Mars</span>, amidst the tribes</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">That on bright <span class="smcap">Flora</span> wait,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And swell the glories of her reign</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With more than regal state;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Larkspur, plant of ancient stock,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Advanc’d his ensign high;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And claim’d th’ immortal wreath of fame,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Due to a Deity.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Like some bold warrior’s is his mien;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Helmet and spurs he wears;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And on his coat of vary’d dyes</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Each warlike blazon bears.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Proud of his form, and of the<a id="FNanchor_17" href="#Footnote_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a> Pow’r</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">That from his contact sprung;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Exalted above all his peers,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Thus Pride inspir’d his tongue:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ye painted, puling race, avaunt!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To greater merit yield;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Forego the honours of the day,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“When I dispute the field.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Far hence your tinsel trappings bear</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To some luxuriant bed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Where, nurs’d by <span class="smcap">Zephyr’s</span> wanton gales,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Their idle bloom may spread!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“In <span class="smcap">me</span> behold the warrior’s grace,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And monarch’s pow’r display’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“In me, to Heav’n itself ally’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In martial pomp array’d.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Emblem of thund’ring <span class="smcap">Mars</span> I rise,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“My boast and offspring too;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Then own the progeny divine,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And pay the tribute due.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Myrtle heard;—fair <span class="smcap">Venus</span>’ care,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With peaceful honours crown’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The glory of the genial hour,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">By lovers still renown’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And how! said she, redoubted knight,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Would’st thou with <span class="allsmcap">US</span> engage?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Did ever <span class="smcap">Mars</span>, of glory vain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Rough wars with <span class="smcap">Venus</span> wage?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>Her</i> flow’r I am; <i>her</i> name I boast,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Who can mankind subdue;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And by a gentler method far</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Than any known to you.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Say, boaster, what are realms destroy’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“By many a foughten field;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“When desp’rate battles, bravely won,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“A bloody harvest yield?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Can these atone the dreadful ills</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That wasteful wars supply;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“When from the horrid din of arms</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The Loves and Graces fly?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Remember, when the blue-ey’d Maid</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With <span class="smcap">Neptune</span> did contend:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Say, who the greatest gift produc’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And let our contest end.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The Palm to <span class="smcap">Pallas</span> was decreed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Who nam’d fair <span class="smcap">Athens</span>; there</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The warlike steed, great <span class="smcap">Neptune’s</span> boast,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Yields to the Olive fair.</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Then thou, proud Knight, exult no more,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Abase thy haughty crest;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Give honour due to meek-ey’d Peace,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And Love, her genial guest.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">XVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>Let then great</i> <span class="smcap">Mars</span> <i>his Pow’r resign</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>To brighter</i> <span class="smcap">Venus</span>’ <i>fame;</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>And quit the glories of the field,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>When</i> <span class="smcap">Love</span> <i>disputes the claim</i>.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XVI.<br /><span class="h_subtitle">The POPPY and the SUN-FLOWER.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">T</span><b>RANSPLANTED</b> from the neighb’ring mead,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which long her presence grac’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The crimson <span class="smcap">Poppy</span> rear’d her head,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In the rich garden plac’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Thence, fann’d by many a gentle gale,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Full oft her scent is borne;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Both when the ev’ning shades prevail,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And at the rise of morn.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">At noon, when ev’n without <i>her</i> aid</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The flow’rs all droop’d around;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="smcap">Clytie</span>, bright <span class="smcap">Phœbus</span>’ love-sick maid,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With all <i>his</i> glories crown’d,</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Still turning to his orb her face,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Survey’d th’ intruding guest;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And, foe to ev’ry sleepy pow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The stranger thus address’d;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Long have we seen each field-flow’r bloom</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Our cultur’d gardens shame:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Which, hither brought, triumphant rise,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And share our nobler fame:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Thou, drowsy <span class="smcap">Poppy</span>, too, at last,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Our rival dost appear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Replete with drugs, whose pois’nous strength</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Corrupts the ambient air.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But think not here, insulting weed!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“(Fair <span class="smcap">Ceres</span>’ hate and bane)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Thy drowsy magic shall prevail,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To blot our brighter reign.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Go, seek thy fields; with noxious weeds</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Divide detested sway:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Or, where thy slumbers nought disturb,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Shun the glad face of day.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Whilst I, to <span class="smcap">Phœbus</span> ever true,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Rejoicing in his light;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“To the great God his tribute pay,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And check the pow’rs of Night.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She spoke;—The nodding <span class="smcap">Poppy</span> then,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Serene, made this reply:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Proud flow’r, I envy not thy state,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Nor coat of richest dye.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“What boast’st thou of his genial pow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Who slighted all thy charms;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And, in thy beauty’s brightest noon,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Fled to another’s arms?</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“How didst thou mourn, and how revenge?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<span class="smcap">Leucothoe</span><a id="FNanchor_18" href="#Footnote_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a> speaks thy crime;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Whose odours still to Heav’n ascend,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And shall to latest time.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Not <i>Love</i>, but <i>Pity</i>, mov’d high Heav’n</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To make thee what thou art;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And place amidst the blooming flow’rs</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“A Nymph with broken heart.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Cease then to vaunt thy heav’nly love,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Nor me so much despise;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Full plain th’ advantages appear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Which from my pow’r arise.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Me <span class="smcap">Ceres</span> <i>hates not</i>; but my seed</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Great Nature near her sows;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Where, far unlike a noxious weed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The beauteous flow’ret blows.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Sleep, gentle God, the ease of grief,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To weary man I bring;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“From care and pain the sweetest balm,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Of vig’rous health the spring.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“I, to the wretched friendly still,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The mourning captives aid;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“My succour to the poor extend,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And ease the love-sick maid.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">XVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Then what Heav’n order’d for the best,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Do thou no longer blame:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Let <i>me</i> old <span class="smcap">Morpheus</span>’ honours share,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Joy <i>thou</i> in <span class="smcap">Phœbus</span>’ flame.</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent15">XIX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“More need I add?—Search Earth around,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And thou shalt truly say,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>More Virtues in Life’s shade will bloom,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Than in her blaze of day</i>.”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</span></p>
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XVII.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i136_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="478" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Iris &amp; Rose</i></b></p>
-
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XVIII.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i136_b.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="483" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Nasturtium &amp; Wall flower</i></b></p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XVII.<br />
-<span class="h_subtitle">The IRIS, or FLOWER de LUCE,<br /> and the ROSE.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">Y</span><b>ES</b>, there are some who, proudly vain</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Still boast of others’ due;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With empty titles cheat the crowd,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And set false shows to view.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Such ever ancient worth disgrace,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Make real titles scorn’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">While by bright Honour’s genuine race</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Those titles are adorn’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The fairest of sweet <span class="smcap">Flora’s</span> tribe</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Boast not the proudest name;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Nor men, with gaudiest titles deck’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Are truest sons of Fame.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">What art thou, bold and spreading flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In fields and gardens known;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">That still assum’st a Monarch’s grace,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And claim’st a Pageant throne?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Genius of nations, guardian pow’rs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That still on Monarchs wait!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“You your own plant shall still protect,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“An emblem of your state.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And, Goddess of the painted Bow!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Still to thy flow’r prove true;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ally’d to thee, I justly claim</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Thy name and colours too<a id="FNanchor_19" href="#Footnote_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a>.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Which then of all the painted train</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That swell this garden’s pride,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Shall with my honour’d name compare,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Or sway with me divide?”</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">This mark’d the <span class="smcap">Rose</span>, a modest flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With maiden blushes bright;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who, vex’d to hear the boaster’s vaunt,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Asserts her native right.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“What are thy titles vain, she said,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That claim superior sway?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Or why should all fair <span class="smcap">Flora’s</span> tribes</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“A rule like thine obey?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“False is thy boast; thy title vain</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Not Gallia’s self will own;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Whose <i>real</i> <span class="smcap">Lilies</span> droop and fade,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Where-e’er my flow’rs are known.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Why <span class="smcap">Iris</span>?—Why by Heav’n’s own bow</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Would’st thou thus climb to fame?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Or cannot many a vary’d flow’r</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Exert a fairer claim?</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Plain <span class="smcap">Flag</span> thou art;—let that suffice;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With <span class="smcap">Lilies</span> I contend;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But flow’rs like thine I still regard,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Alike as foe or friend.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The vain pretender heard, abash’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And hung her drooping head;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">While to the genial fun her leaves</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The <span class="smcap">Rose</span> expanding spread.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Her odour strait proclaim’d her queen</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Of all the smiling flow’rs;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">While the Bee sought the fragrant breast,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And left his honey’d bow’rs.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Thus to the <span class="smcap">Rose</span> the meed was giv’n;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><span class="smcap">Flora</span> confirm’d her reign;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>And worth, like her’s, approv’d by Heav’n,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Shall Heav’n itself maintain</i>.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XVIII.<br />
-<span class="h_subtitle">The NASTURTIUM and the<br /> WALL FLOWER.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">A</span><b>GAINST</b> a funny fence below</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The fair <span class="smcap">Nasturtium</span> plac’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Beheld how well its highest tops</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The fragrant <span class="smcap">Wall-flow’r</span> grac’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Without some useful kind support</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Unable to survive;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Ill could she bear another flow’r</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">By the same means should thrive.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">At length, one sultry summer’s noon,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">When radiant <span class="smcap">Phœbus</span> shone</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On both alike with chearing ray,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She envious thus begun:</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Had I the <span class="smcap">Wall-flow’r’s</span> fragrant scent,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Would I alone thus bloom;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“On yonder peak obscurely dwell,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And waste my rich perfume!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For shame, yield to inferior flow’rs</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That strange and uncouth place;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor, like some noxious worthless weed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Nurse there thy beauteous race.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Besides, <i>I</i> claim the humbler boon,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Against this fence to blow;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“While thee the more indulgent Heav’n</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“May safely place below.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She spoke;—the <span class="smcap">Wall-flow’r</span> thus reply’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Ambition is not mine;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“My native place is still my joy:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Do thou delight in thine.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Full well I know that perils still</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“On frequent change attend:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And they oft spoil their present state,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Who hasty strive to mend.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor less can I <i>thy</i> drift observe,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Who, envious of my lot,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Would’st me of ev’ry help bereave,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Drawn from my native spot.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Too selfish flow’r, who vainly this</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Would’st me of life deprive;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And by my downfall think’st to rise,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And on my ruin thrive.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Know, that th’ all-chearing lamp of day</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“On both alike bestows</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“His sov’reign gifts; for All his light</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Without distinction glows.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Is not that source of genial fire</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Sufficient <i>both</i> to warm,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“That thou should’st thus unkindly seek</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Thy quiet neighbour’s harm?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And what if I consenting give,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Ambitious! thy desire?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Were I now low in ashes laid,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Say, could’st thou climb the higher?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For shame, th’ ungen’rous wish forego,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Rejoice in others’ joy;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And lengthen’d scenes of double bliss</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Shall all thy hours employ.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For know, where Envy’s pow’r prevails,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Peace, Love, and Joy, retire:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Her vot’ries feel eternal pains,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And burn with ceaseless fire.”</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>Felicity with Concord dwells;</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>And ev’ry joy of peace</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>Heav’n’s sacred hand still bounteous gives,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>And blesses the increase.</i></div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</span></p>
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XIX.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i148_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="467" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Lapland Rose.</i></b></p>
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XX.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i148_b.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="483" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Deadly Nightshade.</i></b></p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XIX.<br /><span class="h_subtitle">THE LAPLAND ROSE.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">A</span> wand’ring youth, by Fortune led</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To bleakest northern shores,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Beyond the track of Russian wilds,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Where Lapland’s tempest roars;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who twice the Arctic circle pass’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And view’d bright <span class="smcap">Hecla’s</span><a id="FNanchor_20" href="#Footnote_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a>
-                               flame;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">At length, through many a waste of snow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent1">To fair <span class="smcap">Niemi</span><a id="FNanchor_21" href="#Footnote_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a>
-                               came.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And thence where <span class="smcap">Tenglio</span><a id="FNanchor_22" href="#Footnote_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a>
-                               rolls his stream,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Survey’d the prospect round;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Beheld its banks with verdure deck’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And blushing roses crown’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Stuck with the scene, a while he paus’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">As lost in sweet delight;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And ey’d the fairest of the train</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In native beauty bright.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Yet, as he view’d the stranger flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">He deeply musing cries,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“How strange that beauties such as thine</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“’Midst climes like these should rise!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Thee no bright youth nor gentle fair</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Alas! shall e’er caress;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor splendid southern suns shall warm,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Nor genial gales shall bless!”</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On hollow winds, o’er distant plains,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The murm’ring accents flew;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="smcap">Niemi’s</span> mountains caught the sound,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which from the lake his shadows drew.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And now before the youth confess’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The Genius of the clime</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Appear’d; who thus instructive spoke,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In awful strains sublime;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Fond youth, who view’st that beauteous flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“So luckless in thy fight!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Forbear to mourn her lonely state,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Whom these rude climes delight.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Unrival’d here she sweetly blooms,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And scents the ambient air;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor deems her brightest beauties lost,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“While foster’d by <i>my</i> care.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor envies she the gaudy tribe</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Beneath the southern skies,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“That bloom in some luxurious bow’rs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Where mingled sweets arise.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The child of bounteous Nature! here</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“She bids her bloom dispense</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Fresh sweets, the trav’ler’s soul to chear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And glad his weary’d sense.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Her no bright youth nor gaudy fair</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Shall <span class="smcap">court</span> <i>but to</i> <span class="smcap">destroy</span>;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But Lapland’s simple swains shall view,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With <i>unaffected joy</i>;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And, oft’ as yon’ returning Sun</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Illumes our northern sphere,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Well pleas’d shall trace these flow’ry banks,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And pay their homage here.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Let <i>others</i> seek where spacious meads,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Or painted gardens glow;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Despise <i>my</i> solitary flow’rs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And live the slaves of show.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But know, high Heav’n in desart wastes</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Can bid rich Spring to bloom;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And waken Nature into life,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“From Winter’s dreary tomb.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The gracious Pow’r who rules on high,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Bids <span class="smcap">all</span> his blessings share;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And ev’ry creature of his hand</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Is govern’d by his care.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">XVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Convinc’d that Providence will thus</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“For <span class="smcap">all</span> alike provide;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>Learn to restrain Affliction’s tears,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>And check the boast of Pride</i>.”</div>
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-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XX.<br />
-<span class="h_subtitle">The DEADLY NIGHTSHADE<a id="FNanchor_23" href="#Footnote_23" class="fnanchor"><small>[23]</small></a>.</span></h2>
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-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<span class="bigfont">D</span><b>ETESTED</b> weed, enrag’d, I said,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That spread’st thy poison’d train</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“In this fair land, midst blooming flow’rs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Which grace the happy plain!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Thy baleful root most surely springs</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“From deep Tartarean shade;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“By envious Dæmons nurs’d below,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In Stygian gloom array’d.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Thee <span class="smcap">Circe</span>, and <span class="smcap">Medæa</span> too,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In black enchantment us’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“With baneful plants most fitly mix’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In hellish steams suffus’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ah! why does Parent <span class="smcap">Nature</span> form,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Such works, <i>her</i> works to spoil;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And by <i>her own hand</i> teach mankind,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Infernal arts and guile?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Say, fell Enchantress of the plain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The foe of human-kind?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Say for what crimes man’s hapless race</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“From thee such evils find!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Oh! quit the woods, the plains, the fields,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent3">“Where health and plenty bloom:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Retire to rocks and desart-wilds,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Or shade the Murd’rer’s tomb.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Or rather haste to <span class="smcap">Pluto’s</span> realm;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>There</i> hide thy hated head,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And flourish still unrival’d there;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Where Styx’ nine streams are spread.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But <i>here</i> may ev’ry healing flow’r</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In prime of beauty bloom:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“To sick’ning Man restoring health,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And shedding rich perfume!”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I ceas’d—The Flow’r indignant heard;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And all its leaves display’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">A deep’ning gloom, which flung around</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>A double</i> <span class="smcap">night of shade</span>.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Insulting Man!” she trembling cry’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Of creatures most unjust;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Still taxing Nature with those faults,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Sprung from <i>his</i> evil lust.</div>
-        <span class="pagenum" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The poison’d Snake, the noxious Weed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Earth’s venom’d juices drain;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And, more than all yon’ fragrant flow’rs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Enrich with health the plain.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nay of <i>my race</i> grows many a plant,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Which, of rich gifts possest,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The sage Physician culls with care,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To ease the Patient’s breast.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Let Man his own wild passions tame,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And hush them into Peace;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<span class="smcap">Medæa’s</span> wand, and <span class="smcap">Circe’s</span> cup,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Were innocent to <i>these</i>.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For <span class="smcap">me</span>, great Nature’s high behest;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Contented I fulfil;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor dream that aught by <i>her</i> ordain’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Can ever end in <i>ill</i>.</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>Go thou, fond youth, and</i> <span class="smcap">Virtue’s</span> <i>charge</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>With equal care obey:</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>Then ev’ry Weed shall prove a Flow’r,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>To strew thy destin’d way.</i>”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
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-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XXI.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i160_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="477" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Crown Imperial and Heartsease.</i></b></p>
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XXII.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i160_b.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="485" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Water Lily.</i></b></p>
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-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XXI.<br />
-<span class="h_subtitle">The CROWN IMPERIAL<br /> and HEART’S-EASE.</span></h2>
-</div>
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-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">L</span><b>O!</b> where from Persia’s warmer clime,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And ancient Bactria’s land;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With interwoven purple wrought,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The ensign of command,</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The <span class="smcap">Crown Imperial</span> rears aloft</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">His rich and gorgeous head,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And, pointing to the distant sky,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Bids all his glories spread.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Beneath, in humbler station plac’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The fair <span class="smcap">Viola</span> grew,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Which the lov’d name of <i>Heart’s-Ease</i> bears,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Whose pow’r can Care subdue.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The purple monarch swell’d with ire,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Indignant to behold</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The flow’ret blooming near his side,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And thus his anger told;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Rash flow’r, seest thou my aweful state,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That speaks the garden’s king?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“See’st thou th’ Imperial Crown that decks,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And gems that round me spring.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“I from the East my lineage draw,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Where chief of flow’rs I rise;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And amidst thousands raise my fame,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Ev’n to the starry skies.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Go then, base daughter of the earth!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Near some vile cottage grow;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor give thy paltry race to rise</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Where my bright blossoms blow!”</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The sweet <span class="smcap">Viola</span> inly mourn’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The boaster’s ill-plac’d pride;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And, while this answer she return’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The flow’r with pity ey’d:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Great is the boast, I own, she said,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Of pomp and scepter’d pow’r;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But <i>greater</i> are the blessings found</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In life’s serener hour.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>Thee</i> purple honours still adorn,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Which teach thy leaves to shine;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But to breathe fragrance on the day,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Proud plant! was never <i>thine</i>.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“That <i>I</i> am stranger to thy race,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The cause is plain to tell;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For when did <i>Heart’s-Ease</i> ever deign</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With <i>crowned heads</i> to dwell?</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<span class="smcap">Me</span> still in life’s more humble vale</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Most certain will you find;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“There most <i>my</i> simple sweets are known,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Where Fortune proves least kind.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Go learn, <i>That neither wealth nor pomp</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>True blessings can bestow</i>;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>On sweet</i> <span class="smcap">Content</span> <i>alone await</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>All joy and bliss below</i>.”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XXII.<br /><span class="h_subtitle">THE WATER LILY.</span></h2>
-</div>
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-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">W</span><b>ITHIN</b> a crystal riv’let bright,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Whose sides, with verdure crown’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From shelving banks reflected wide</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The landscape bord’ring round,</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">A <span class="smcap">Water Lily</span> peaceful rear’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Her lovely, graceful head;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And on the gently-heaving stream</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Her beauteous flow’rs were spread.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Thence she beheld the banks with flow’rs</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Of various kinds array’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And nodding trees, that far dispers’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Their over-hanging shade;</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">For there the lofty Poplar grew,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Still mingling white with green;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And there the rustling Aspin too</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With trembling leaves was seen.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Willow, nodding o’er the brook,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Drinks deep the stream below;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Cowslip and Primrose near at hand,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And purple Iris glow.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The <span class="smcap">Lily</span> saw, and to the lake</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Thus soft-complaining cry’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">While gentle <span class="smcap">Zephyrs</span> bore the sound,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which spread from side to side:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ah hapless lot! while <i>others</i> bloom</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“On yonder happy shore,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Amongst their kindred tribes—<i>my</i> fate</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Here lonely I deplore.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Condemn’d amid this watry waste</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“For ever to remain;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor taste the joys which <i>others</i> know</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“On yonder flow’ry plain.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The <span class="smcap">Goddess of the Water</span> heard,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And Anger mov’d her heart;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“How dar’st thou thus affront (she said)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The Pow’r by which thou <span class="allsmcap">ART</span>?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Those other trees and flow’rs thou see’st,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<span class="smcap">All</span> sprang from Mother Earth:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And grateful tribute <span class="allsmcap">ALL</span> return</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To Her who gave them birth.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“While <i>thou</i>, alas! should <i>I</i> withdraw</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The least of this my store;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Shalt call on <i>other</i> Pow’rs in vain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And sink, to rise no more.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Beauteous thou art, nor meanly priz’d:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Then lay no blame on me;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor seek what, though it <i>others</i> bless,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Must surely ruin <i>thee</i>.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But still revere this facted truth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Whatever may betide</i>;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>What Heav’n decrees is always</i> <span class="smcap">best</span>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>And all is</i> <span class="smcap">bad</span> <i>beside</i>.”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
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-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XXIII.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i170_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="471" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Lover &amp; Funeral Flowers</i></b></p>
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XXIV.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i170_b.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="481" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Field &amp; Garden Daisy</i></b></p>
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XXIII.<br /><span class="h_subtitle">The FUNERAL FLOWERS.</span></h2>
-</div>
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-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">A</span><b>S</b>, lonely walking o’er the plain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With solemn step and slow,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">A hapless swain, at midnight hour,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Went forth to vent his woe;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">His hand the sweetest flow’rets fill’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">That glow’d with beauty’s bloom;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Now destin’d with their richest tints</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">T’ adorn his <span class="smcap">Laura’s</span> tomb.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Lo! there each mournful flow’r he strew’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which vernal <span class="smcap">Flora</span> bears;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With frequent sighs dispers’d them round,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And water’d them with tears.</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">There was the <span class="smcap">Vi’let’s</span> purple hue,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And <span class="smcap">Hyacinthus</span> seen;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The leaves with monarch’s names inscrib’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And plaintive notes between.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Sweet <span class="smcap">Rosemary</span>, and many a plant</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In Eastern gardens known;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And Lover’s <span class="smcap">Myrtle</span>, which the Queen</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Of Beauty deigns to own.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">A Sage, who wander’d there alone</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In the dank dews of night,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To gather plants of mystic pow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Beneath the moon’s pale light,</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With scornful smile, and eye askance,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The hapless youth survey’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Who paid the last sad tribute there</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">To the departed maid.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And what! (said he) shall those sweet flow’rs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Which sinking life can save,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And plants of aromatic scent,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Adorn a <i>dreary grave</i>?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For shame, fond youth! learn Nature’s gifts</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With better skill to prize.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Attend her precepts; read them here:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Be <i>frugal</i>, and be <i>wise</i>.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He ceas’d; the sighing youth reply’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To <span class="smcap">Laura’s</span> shade I give,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Unblam’d, each emblematic flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Which <i>she</i> first taught to live.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And frequent here fair <span class="smcap">Flora’s</span> train</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Uncull’d by</i> <span class="smcap">me</span> shall bloom;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And, nurs’d by bright <span class="smcap">Aurora’s</span> tears,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Diffuse their rich perfume.</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Then urge me not, with narrow mind,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To wrong the dust below;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But rather <span class="allsmcap">THOU</span> expand thy heart,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And gen’rous tears bestow.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Thus as he spoke, the <span class="smcap">Redbreast</span> mild,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The friend of human-kind,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Wide scatter’d leaves o’er the low mound,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And on the turf reclin’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">While <span class="smcap">Philomel</span> with plaintive notes</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Funereal dirges sung</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">O’er <span class="smcap">Laura’s</span> tomb, who oft’ in life</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Had mourn’d <i>her</i> ravish’d young.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And vain (she sang) was Wisdom’s lore,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">That taught the heart to hide;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And vain the empty idle boast</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Of Philosophic Pride.</div>
-               <span class="pagenum" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The flow’rs more sweetly seem’d to smile</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Reviving at her lay;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And sweeter scent, and fresher green,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The swelling leaves display.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Sage stood check’d, the solemn song</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Such virtue could impart;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He dropp’d a tear, to pity due,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">That humaniz’d the heart.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">XVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The “graceful softness of the soul”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">He learn’d thenceforth to prize;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And own’d, <i>where</i> <span class="smcap">Nature</span> <i>touch’d the Heart,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>’Twas</i> <span class="smcap">Folly</span> <i>to be</i> <span class="smcap">wise</span>.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
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-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XXIV.<br /><span class="h_subtitle">The FIELD and GARDEN DAISY.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">I</span><b>N</b> fields, where Thames her swelling wave</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Translucent pours along;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Where many a blooming green retreat</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Inspires the poet’s song;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">A mead with native beauty crown’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Extends its verdant bed;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Where fragrant Field-flow’rs wildly bloom,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In sweet confusion spread.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">It chanc’d a sportive youth had there</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A <span class="smcap">Garden Daisy</span> rear’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Which ’midst the tribe of wilder sort</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Full haughtily appear’d.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Away! (she cry’d) ye meaner train,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Whose leaves no culture know;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Respect the Cultivated Flower,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That <i>deigns</i> in fields to grow!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And chiefly <i>thou</i> that boast’st <i>my</i> name,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Though surely <i>not ally’d</i>;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Claim kindred with thy native weeds,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Nor flourish by <i>my</i> side!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“I know thee not;—thy form I scorn;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In native splendour bright</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<span class="smcap">Iris</span> has dipp’d my painted leaves,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“All beauteous to the sight.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Whilst <span class="smcap">thou</span>!—but vainly spent the time,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“On such a flow’r bestow’d:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Disdain’d by all the Garden’s tribes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>My</i> late belov’d abode.</div>
-              <span class="pagenum" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Know <span class="smcap">me</span> your queen, ye low-born race,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Confess superior sway;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor longer in my presence bloom,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“But tremble, and obey.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“To foul reproach (the <span class="smcap">Daisy</span> said)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“What answer can we yield,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“When <i>cultivated flow’rs</i> insult</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The natives of the field?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Yet what art <span class="smcap">thou</span>? proud gaudy toy,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Descended but from me,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Who mourn too late I e’er gave birth</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To such Ingrates as thee!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“I have my use, and oft’ am seen</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The village maids t’ adorn:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Go prouder <i>thou</i>, in gardens bloom,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And be the great-ones scorn.</div>
-              <span class="pagenum" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But here, proud flow’r, thy date is short,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The soil denies thee room;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And ev’n this spot, where now thou swell’st,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Shall shortly prove thy tomb.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The Sun gaz’d hot, the foreign field</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">No moisture would supply;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Soon did the boaster droop her head,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And wither, fade, and die.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">What need I more?—The village swain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">While on the sod reclin’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Feels the plain Moral of the Tale</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Deep graven on his mind.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
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-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</span></p>
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XXV.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i182_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="480" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Pinks and Arbutus.</i></b></p>
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XXVI.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i182_b.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="472" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Cockscomb &amp; Sweetwilliam.</i></b></p>
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-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XXV.<br /><span class="h_subtitle">The PINKS and ARBUTUS.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">V</span><b>IRTUE</b>, the growth of ev’ry clime,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Alike should be rever’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Whether from distant regions brought,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Or in <i>our</i> country rear’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Rome, the great mistress of the world,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Such height had ne’er attain’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The train of worth in ev’ry land</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Had her proud sons disdain’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">From <i>foreign</i> arms, from <i>foreign</i> arts,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Her <i>native</i> glory rose;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And more than half her boasted state</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She borrow’d from her foes.</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Vain is that boast of selfish pride,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which deems no worth is found,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But in the narrow sphere confin’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Of its own native ground.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Though not to foreign lands, untaught,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">We need for Virtue roam;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Yet real Virtue, nurs’d abroad,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Should be rever’d at home.—</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">On fair Ierne’s happy shore</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A tall <span class="smcap">Arbutus</span> plac’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Bloom’d near a sweetly-cultur’d spot,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">By <span class="smcap">Pinks</span> unnumber’d grac’d,</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">’Twas on the border of that lake<a id="FNanchor_24" href="#Footnote_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Where vary’d prospects rise,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Of sunny hills, o’er-hanging rocks,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And low’ring misty skies;</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="smcap">Selina</span>, wand’ring near the Lake,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The foreign tree survey’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And bloom’st thou ’midst our native Flow’rs?”</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Exclaim’d the redd’ning maid—</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“O could these hands thy root remove!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“But since that may not be,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Far I’ll transplant my fragrant Race,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Now plac’d too near to thee.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She said—when strait before her stood</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">An ancient Hermit grave;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">With silver’d locks and streaming beard,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The tenant of the cave;</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Desist, fond maid! the Hermit cry’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Lest these thy favour’d flow’rs</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Should die, if hastily remov’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“From these their well-known bow’rs;</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“What if the tall <span class="smcap">Arbutus</span> share</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Th’ indulgence of thy land;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Do not his sweetly fragrant flow’rs</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“As fair a lot demand?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor let <span class="smcap">Ierne’s</span> children grieve,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Where foreign worth is shown;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But learn with cultivating care</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To make that worth <i>their own</i>.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For thee, fair maid—the patriot flame</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Still nourish in thy breast:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But let that flame by Reason’s rules</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Be modell’d and repress’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Know that thy country’s weal depends</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Not on <i>herself</i> alone;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But each assisting hand that strives</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To fix fair Freedom’s throne.</div>
-             <span class="pagenum" id="Page_151">[Pg 151]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Commerce and Stores from other lands</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Your glories still increase;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Encourage then the golden stream,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And ev’ry art of peace.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">XVII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor foreign Flow’rs, nor foreign Plants,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Deny a fost’ring place;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“When those fair Plants or blooming Flow’rs</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Bring Profit, Sweet, or Grace.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent12">XVIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Reject alone the idle weed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That blooms but to destroy;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“To cultivate the rest with care</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Your utmost skill employ.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He ceas’d;—the Nymph her task forsook,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And still together bloom</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The beautous Tree, and fragrant Flow’rs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Whence <span class="smcap">Zephyrs</span> steal perfume.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XXVI.<br />
-<span class="h_subtitle">The COCK’S COMB and<br /> SWEET WILLIAM.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">H</span><b>IGH</b> rose the Sun, the fleeting hours</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Verg’d tow’rds meridian height,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And all around the glitt’ring scene</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Was lost in floods of light.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The flocks and herds, that graz’d awhile,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Now left the sunny glade;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And in the stream their fervour cool’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Or sought the shelt’ring shade.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Beneath a high projected fence,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">At this irradiate hour,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The sweet <i>Dianthus</i><a id="FNanchor_25" href="#Footnote_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a>
-                               humbly blew,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A solitary Flow’r.</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But where a thousand mingling sweets</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Diffus’d a rich perfume;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The gaudy <span class="smcap">Cock’s Comb</span>, idly vain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Appear’d in all its bloom.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And “Matchless excellence!” he cry’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With <span class="smcap">me</span> what can compare?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The sweetest of the vernal train</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Were never half so fair.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“My crested head erect I rear,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And bloom with matchless grace;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The brightest hue my leaves adorns,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Of all the flow’ry race.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nay, to immortal pow’rs a-kin,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Descent from Heav’n I claim<a id="FNanchor_26" href="#Footnote_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a>;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And from eternal-blooming Flow’rs</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Derive my honour’d name.”</div>
-          <span class="pagenum" id="Page_154">[Pg 154]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I view’d the Plant, its form admir’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">When a more modest Flow’r</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Engag’d my eye, where soft it rose</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Within its lonely bow’r.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Sweet tribes, (he sang,) fair <span class="smcap">Flora’s</span> care,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“What beauties you display!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“My breast expands with social joy</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To see your bright array.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“To <i>me</i>, the last of flow’rets, give,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Within this pale to grow:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And give the west winds gentle breath</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“O’er this my bed to blow.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He spoke—the pow’rs indulgent heard,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Soft <span class="smcap">Zephyrs</span> fann’d the trees;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And o’er his humble earthy bed</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Diffus’d a gentle breeze.</div>
-            <span class="pagenum" id="Page_155">[Pg 155]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Smit with the fragrance of the scent</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The winds rejoicing bore;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">I own’d the pow’r of modest worth,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Whose rival charm’d no more<a id="FNanchor_27" href="#Footnote_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a>.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Say, Fair-ones, is the Moral plain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In easy Fable drest?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">It is but this—<i>To Merit true,</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Throw Coxcombs from your breast</i>.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_156">[Pg 156]</span>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XXVII.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i194_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="472" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Jasmine and Hemlock.</i></b></p>
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XXVIII.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i194_b.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="473" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>The Carnation and Southernwood.</i></b></p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XXVII.<br />
-<span class="h_subtitle">The JASMINE and HEMLOCK.</span></h2>
-</div>
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-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">T</span><b>OW’RING</b> aloft, a <span class="smcap">Jasmine</span> sweet</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In a rich garden stood;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And thence, nurs’d by wild Nature’s care,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The neighb’ring <span class="smcap">Hemlock</span> view’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">High o’er the pale the angry flow’r</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Rear’d her affronted head;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And, glowing in her vernal bloom,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">She thus contemptuous said:</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Say, worse than Aconite, pernicious weed!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“How dar’st thou here to grow;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And thy detested head advance,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Near where my blossoms blow?”</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The angry <span class="smcap">Hemlock</span> strait reply’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Thou proud insulting thing!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Vain is thy pride, and vain thy boast,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Though deck’d by gaudy Spring.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Thou, in the blooming garden plac’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“May’st please the roving eye.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“I in some field or secret shade</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“My useful aid supply.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nay, scornful flow’r! what I declare,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Great Nature’s self will own:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ordaining all things fair and good,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“When once their use is known.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Go ask of genial <span class="smcap">Bacchus</span>’ tree,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Where purple clusters glow;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“(Whose juice produces gen’rous wine,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The balm of human woe.)</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_159">[Pg 159]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Go ask what various ills attend,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That precious balm’s abuse:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ills that too surely ev’n exceed</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Those of my baneful juice.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Yet baneful <i>where</i>? when <i>mis-apply’d</i>;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“So is each blessing too.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“This lesson learn, and know thyself;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Nor rob me of my due.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Me the grave Leech, who, greatly wise,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Turns Nature’s volume o’er,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Oft snatches from my low abode,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And places in his store.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“There, amongst health-bestowing plants,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“He ranks my honour’d name;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And, whilst he well employs <i>my</i> pow’rs,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Exalts <i>himself</i> to fame.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_160">[Pg 160]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Thus death and life alike are <i>mine</i>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Neither to <i>thee</i> belong:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Though oft’ by poets most admir’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The theme of idle song.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Be thou so still; but ne’er despise</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Those gifts thou canst not share:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But keep this maxim in thy heart,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>The</i> <span class="smcap">Useful</span> <i>is the</i> <span class="smcap">Fair</span>.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She said—abash’d the <span class="smcap">Jasmine</span> heard,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And hung her drooping head;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">She saw, <i>That</i> <span class="smcap">Nature’s</span> <i>works were good</i>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And all her Boasting fled.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_161">[Pg 161]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XXVIII.<br />
-<span class="h_subtitle">The CARNATION and<br /> SOUTHERNWOOD.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">R</span><b>ICH</b> in a thousand beauteous dyes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The sweet <span class="smcap">Carnation</span> stood;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">While with a proud disdainful eye</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The <span class="smcap">Southernwood</span> she view’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Great is thy Pride,” the flow’r exclaim’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To place thee near my side;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For ev’n to grow in this retreat,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Argues thy matchless pride.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Say, what art thou, thyself no flow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“That dar’st intrude thee here;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“’Midst plants fit for a prince’s bow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Flow’rs fit for kings to wear?</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_162">[Pg 162]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Whate’er I am,” the Plant reply’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“My post I well maintain;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And chearful lend my needful aid,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Where thine, alas! were vain.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Say, could thy flow’rs of brightest dye</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Infection’s</i> force withstand?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ah! what could all thy beauties do,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“If plagues laid waste the land?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Mean as I am, the task is mine,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To purge th’ unwholesome air;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“To clear the brain, the blood refine,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And seat <span class="smcap">Hygeia</span><a id="FNanchor_28" href="#Footnote_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a> there.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nay farther still;—thyself shalt own</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“How oft’ I’m join’d with thee;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And thy bright blossoms brighter bloom,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Because they’re plac’d by me.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Are not the <i>various tints</i>, which deck</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“This scene, the Florist’s pride?</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<span class="smcap">Me</span> then, imperious! venerate</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“For pow’rs to thee deny’d.—</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Say, if each warbler of the grove</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Should chuse the self-same strain;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Would the tir’d ear the concert please,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Or wish to hear again?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nature, who made us what we are,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Did diff’rent gifts impart;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And gave to all their portion due</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Of her all-plastic art.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Contented then in diff’rent spheres</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Unenvying let us move:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For this must still most grateful be</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To <span class="smcap">those</span> who rule above.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>Me</i> let <i>thy</i> sweetest fragrance grace,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Ev’n from the early May;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And <i>thee</i> will <i>I</i> in gardens fair</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“With sov’reign balm repay.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For, thus united while we stand,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“We need to ask no more;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“While mutually we take and give,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“We double all our <i>store</i>.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Prudent she said;—her rival, pleas’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Adopts the smelling green;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And one for <i>Use</i>, and one for <i>Show</i>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Together now are seen.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Learn hence, <i>That various talents giv’n</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Mean variously to bless:</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><i>And thus on mutual wants kind Heav’n</i></div>
-    <div class="verse indent2"><i>Builds mutual Happiness</i>.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="figcenter">
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XXIX.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i204_a.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="447" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>Field Flower &amp; Rosemary.</i></b></p>
-  <p class="f150"><b><i>Fab. XXX.</i></b></p>
-  <img src="images/i204_b.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="452" />
-  <p class="f150 space-below2"><b><i>Judgement of the Flowers.</i></b></p>
-</div>
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
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-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XXIX.<br />
-<span class="h_subtitle">The ROSEMARY and FIELD FLOWER.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">U</span><b>PON</b> the fam’d <span class="smcap">Hypanis</span>’ banks,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">By chance, in days of yore,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">A tuft of Rosemary there grew,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which scented all the shore.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And near at hand a Field-flow’r rear</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Its variegated head;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And view’d full many a spacious track,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With dreary desarts spread.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But where the river roll’d its stream,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Unnumber’d insects swarm’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Which rose in myriads into life,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">By <span class="smcap">Phœbus</span>’ influence warm’d<a id="FNanchor_29" href="#Footnote_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a>.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_166">[Pg 166]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The same revolving day that saw</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Their scene of life begun,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Beheld them sink to dust again,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With the declining sun.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And one of these, at noon-tide hour,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">(The hardiest of his race)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Urg’d to the Field-flow’r bright and gay</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">His quick and eager pace.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">But when no fragrant scent he found</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">In that same flow’r so bright;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He to the sweeter Rosemary</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Immediate urg’d his flight.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The <i>lasting</i> aromatic plant,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">His speed with wonder view’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Advis’d him other flow’rs to seek,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Nor on her spot intrude.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“And how can I for <i>thee</i> (she said)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“My happier pow’rs display,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Or with my lasting flow’r support</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The insect of a day?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Sure Nature form’d thy race in sport,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Continual to destroy;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Nor ever meant thy race to taste</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“One pure, substantial joy.”</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Not so,” the wiser Insect cry’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“My high descent I claim</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“From <span class="smcap">Phœbus</span>’ self—you cannot more,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Nor wish a higher name.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“What if to me a shorter date</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“By Nature’s law is giv’n;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Each moment that I live, <i>t’ enjoy</i>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Is all I ask of Heav’n.</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Beneath the Mushroom’s spacious shade,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Or in the mossy bow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Or still at noon as <i>now</i> reclin’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Beneath some fragrant flow’r.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Know, that as much of life I trace</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In one revolving sun;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“As yonder herds, whose destin’d course</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Full many an age has run.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“For equal are great Nature’s gifts,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“And but an idle dream;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The boast of time, which glides away</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Swift as the passing stream.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Well to employ the present hour,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Sweet plant, be ever thine;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<span class="smcap">Life’s</span> little day, <i>when once elaps’d</i>,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“<i>Shall seem as short as</i> <span class="smcap">mine</span>.”</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</span></p>
-<h2 class="nobreak">FABLE XXX.<br />
-<span class="h_subtitle">The JUDGEMENT of FLOWERS.</span></h2>
-</div>
-
-<div class="poetry-container">
-<div class="poetry">
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent14">I.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0"><span class="bigfont">F</span><b>AR</b> from the busy haunts of men,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Far from the glaring eye of day;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Still Fancy paints, with Nature’s pen,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Such tints as never can decay.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">II.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hast thou not seen, at ev’ning hour,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">When <span class="smcap">Phœbus</span> sunk beneath the main,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Reclin’d in some sequester’d bow’r,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The village maid, or shepherd swain?</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">III.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Hast thou not mark’d them cull with care</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Some favour’d flow’ret from the rest,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">To deck the breast, or bind the hair,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Of those they priz’d and lov’d the best?</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_170">[Pg 170]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And still expressive of the mind</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The emblematic gift was found;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Whether to mournful thought inclin’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Or with triumphant gladness crown’d.—</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">V.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Near <span class="smcap">Avon’s</span> banks, a cultur’d spot,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">With many a tuft of flow’rs adorn’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Was once an aged shepherd’s lot,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Who scenes of greater splendor scorn’d.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Three beauteous daughters bless’d his bed,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Who made the little plat their care;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And ev’ry sweet by <span class="smcap">Flora</span> spread</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Attentive still they planted there.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Once, when still ev’ning veil’d the sky,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The sire walk’d forth, and sought the bow’r;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And bade the lovely maids draw nigh,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">And each select some favour’d flow’r.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">VIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The first, with radiant splendor charm’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">A variegated Tulip chose:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The next, with love of beauty charm’d,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Preferr’d the sweetly-blushing Rose.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">IX.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The third, who mark’d, with depth of thought,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">How those bright Flow’rs must droop away,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">An Ev’ning Primrose only brought,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Which opens with the closing day.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">X.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">The sage a while in silence view’d</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The various choice of flow’rs display’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">And then (with wisdom’s gift endu’d)</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">Address’d each beauteous list’ning maid!</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Who chose the Tulip’s splendid dyes,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Shall own, too late, when that decays,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“That, vainly proud, not greatly wise,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“She only caught a short-liv’d blaze.</div>
-           <span class="pagenum" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“The Rose, though beauteous leaves and sweet</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Its glorious vernal pride adorn:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Let her who chose beware to meet</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The biting sharpness of its thorn.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIII.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“But <i>she</i>, who to fair day-light’s train</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The Ev’ning flow’r more just preferr’d;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Chose real worth, nor chose in vain</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“The one great object of regard.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XIV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Ambitious <i>thou</i>! the Tulip race</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“In all life’s vary’d course beware:</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“Caught with sweet Pleasure’s rosy grace,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Do <i>thou</i> its sharper thorns beware.</div>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XV.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“<i>Thou</i> prudent still to Virtue’s lore,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“Attend, and mark her counsels sage!</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">“She like <i>thy flow’r</i> has sweets in store,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">“To soothe the ev’ning of thine age.”</div>
-         <span class="pagenum" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</span>
-  </div>
-  <div class="stanza">
-    <div class="verse indent13">XVI.</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">He ceas’d—attend the moral strain,</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The Muse enlighten’d pours;</div>
-    <div class="verse indent0">Nor let her pencil trace in vain</div>
-    <div class="verse indent2">The Judgement of the Flow’rs.</div>
-  </div>
-</div>
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-
-<div class="footnotes">
-<p class="f150"><b>Footnotes:</b></p>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">[1]</a>
-The author of The Vizlis: or Enchanted Labyrinth; an Oriental
-Tale, 3 Vols.—Wherein describes with great taste and fancy, the
-different passions that are subject to misguide the warm and expanded
-imagination, of Youth by the Flowers they make choice of in the Labyrinth.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_2" href="#FNanchor_2" class="label">[2]</a>
-The Vale of Cluyd.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_3" href="#FNanchor_3" class="label">[3]</a>
-Iris, or Fleur de lis.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_4" href="#FNanchor_4" class="label">[4]</a>
-Larkspur.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_5" href="#FNanchor_5" class="label">[5]</a>
-The Hollyhock.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_6" href="#FNanchor_6" class="label">[6]</a>
-Anemone, or Wind Flower.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_7" href="#FNanchor_7" class="label">[7]</a>
-Narcissus.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_8" href="#FNanchor_8" class="label">[8]</a>
-Bell Flower, Corn Violet, or Venus’s Looking Glass.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_9" href="#FNanchor_9" class="label">[9]</a>
-Clytie, or the Sun-Flower.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_10" href="#FNanchor_10" class="label">[10]</a>
-This flower is encompassed with thorns, and its root is
-said to have a poisonous quality.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_11" href="#FNanchor_11" class="label">[11]</a>
-According to the old Fable, the Rose was at first always white, till
-Venus, while she was pursuing Adonis, scratched herself with its
-thorns, and thereby stained it with her cœlestial blood.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_12" href="#FNanchor_12" class="label">[12]</a>
-The Amaranth.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_13" href="#FNanchor_13" class="label">[13]</a>
-Alluding to the Civil Wars of York and Lancaster, in which the White
-Rose and the Red were adopted as tokens or devices by their different
-partisans.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_14" href="#FNanchor_14" class="label">[14]</a>
- It is here to be noted that the autumnal Crocus is the
-Saffron Flower, so famous in Medicine.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_15" href="#FNanchor_15" class="label">[15]</a>
-This flower opens in the morning, and fades away in the
-evening, closing up, and never opening again.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_16" href="#FNanchor_16" class="label">[16]</a>
-According to the Old Fable, Jupiter being willing to make Hercules
-immortal, caused him to suck Juno while she was asleep; when the milk
-gushing out into a great quantity, some of it being spilt upon the
-sky, made the galaxy or milky way there, while the rest falling to the
-earth, gave birth to the White Lily.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_17" href="#FNanchor_17" class="label">[17]</a>
-Juno is said to have conceived Mars by only touching the
-flower called Larkspur.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_18" href="#FNanchor_18" class="label">[18]</a>
-Apollo having forsaken Clytie for this Nymph; the former, in return,
-informed Leucothoe’s father of his daughter’s amour with Phœbus.
-He thereupon buried Leucothoe alive; but Phœbus changed her into a
-Frankincense Tree; and after this, Clytie being discarded by the God,
-who was beyond measure offended with her, she pined away, and was
-changed into a Sun-Flower.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_19" href="#FNanchor_19" class="label">[19]</a>
-Iris being the name given to the Rainbow.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_20" href="#FNanchor_20" class="label">[20]</a>
-A Volcano in the North, whose sides are covered with snow.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_21" href="#FNanchor_21" class="label">[21]</a>
-The Mountains of <span class="smcap">Niemi</span> are in the
-neighbourhood of a lake of the same name, which is said by the
-inhabitants to be frequented by the immortal Genii.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_22" href="#FNanchor_22" class="label">[22]</a>
-This River is bordered with Roses of as fine a bloom as
-those which grow in our gardens.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_23" href="#FNanchor_23" class="label">[23]</a>
-The juice of this weed was generally supposed to be used in
-Enchantments—There are however several sorts of it, all of which are
-not esteemed deadly; but only this mentioned here, the juice of whose
-berries so intoxicated the army of Sweno the Danish King, being mixed
-in their liquor, that they became an easy prey to the Scotch army,
-which surprised and cut most of them to pieces.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_24" href="#FNanchor_24" class="label">[24]</a>
-The Lake of Killarney, most romantically situated in the county of
-Kerry, in Ireland, where the Arbutus tree is found, which bears a most
-beautiful blossom, and a fruit sometimes used for food, and which is
-supposed to have been transplanted thither from Italy.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_25" href="#FNanchor_25" class="label">[25]</a>
-Another name for Sweet William.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_26" href="#FNanchor_26" class="label">[26]</a>
-This Flower is a kind of Bastard Amaranth.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_27" href="#FNanchor_27" class="label">[27]</a>
-The Cock’s Comb being a gaudy Flower, without any agreeable
-smell to recommend it.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_28" href="#FNanchor_28" class="label">[28]</a>
-The Goddess of Health.</p></div>
-
-<div class="footnote"><p class="no-indent">
-<a id="Footnote_29" href="#FNanchor_29" class="label">[29]</a>
-On the banks of the river Hypanis, there is a sort of insect, whose
-life is said only to extend from the rising to the setting of the
-sun.</p></div>
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author	nfenwick <nfenwick@pglaf.org>	2025-01-22 22:16:44 -0800
committer	nfenwick <nfenwick@pglaf.org>	2025-01-22 22:16:44 -0800
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