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Argument of the Second Canto.


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Argument of the Third Canto.


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Argument of the Fourth Canto.


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PREFACE.

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The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing The Loves of the Plants. A Poem. With Philosophical Notes: Canto II.

Again the Goddess strikes the golden lyre,
And tunes to wilder notes the warbling wire;...

And now the Goddess founds her silver shell,
And shakes with deeper tones the inchanted dell;
Pale, round her grassy throne, bedew'd with tears,
Flit the thin forms of Sorrows, and of Fears;...

The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing The Loves of the Plants. A Poem. With Philosophical Notes: Canto IV.

Now the broad Sun his golden orb unshrouds,
Flames in the west, and paints the parted clouds;...