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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]
  

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It Ver, et Venus; et Veneris prænuncius ante
Pennatus graditur Zephyrus vestigia propter;
Flora quibus mater, præspergens ante viai
Cuncta, coloribus egregiis et odoribus opplet.
Lucret.