Poems on Several Occasions With Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII. An Epistle. By Mrs. Elizabeth Tollet. The Second Edition |
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To Dr. JAMES SHERARD, M. D.
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To Dr. JAMES SHERARD, M. D.
On the Hortus Elthamensis.
The wisest Man, the noblest Theme to choose,On Trees and Plants employ'd his royal Muse:
A Subject worthy Solomon to sing;
To sute the Sage, the Poet, and the King.
Bear me, O Muse! where Sherard dar'd to tread
By sacred Love of Vegetables led.
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Or where Olympus views the Clouds below:
Or Lebanon in nobler Song renown'd,
With everlasting Snows and Cedars crown'd;
To paint in Verse the wild majestic Scenes,
And shade their vast Variety of Greens.
May fairest Flow'rs of everlasting Bloom
And freshest Verdure still adorn his Tomb,
Who on his native Isis has bestow'd
The Shades where Ganges and Euphrates flow'd.
The Laurel, Palm, and every sacred Tree
Are his; but yet divided still with thee:
In thy Recess shall all the Muses rove;
And Eltham's Gardens vye with Plato's Grove.
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