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The botanic garden, a poem

In two parts. Part I. Containing The economy of Vegetation, Part II. The Loves of the plants. With philosophical notes. The fourth edition. [by Erasmus Darwin]
Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
  
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As when at noon in Hybla's fragrant bowers
Cacalia opens all her honey'd flowers;
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Contending swarms on bending branches cling,
And nations hover on aurelian wing;
So round the Goddess, ere she speaks, on high
Impatient Sylphs in gawdy circlets fly;
Quivering in air their painted plumes expand,
And coloured shadows dance upon the land.
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