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Show [ v ] TO THE AUTHOR OF THE POEM ON THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS. BY THE REV, W. B. STEPHENS. OF'f tho' thy genius, DARWIN! amply fraught With native wealth, explore new worlds of mind; Whence the bright ores of drofslefs wifdom brought, Stampt by the Mufe's hand, enrich mankind; Tho' willing Nature to thy curious eye, Involved in night, her mazy depths betray; Till at their fource thy piercing fearch defcry The iheams, that bathe with Life our mortal clay; 'tho', boldly foaring in fublimer mood 'through tracklefs ikies on metaphyfic wings, Thou dareil: to fcan the approachlefs Caufe of Good,. And weigh with il:eadfafi hand the Sum of Things;. b |
