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IX. BOOK I. CH. II. § 5.

[The plants and trees made poor and old]

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Albinovanus, Eleg. de ob. Mæc. 113–4.

The plants and trees made poor and old
By winter envious,
The spring-time bounteous
Covers again from shame and cold;
But never man repaired again
His youth and beauty lost,
Though art and care and cost
Do promise nature's help in vain.