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First Line: When phoebus looks through aries on the right
Last Line: They've felt; 'tis then we fell sublimer props.
Subject(s): Cold; Plants; Seasons; Winter; Youth; Planting; Planters


WHEN Phœbus looks through Aries on the spring,
And vernal flow'rs teem with the dulcet fruit,
Autumnal pride! delay not then thy sets
In Tellus' facile bosom to depose
Timely; if thou art wise the bulkiest choose;
To every root three joints indulge, and form
The quincunx with well-regulated hills.
Soon from the dung-enrichèd earth, their heads
The young plants will uplift, their virgin arms
They'll stretch, and, marriageable, claim the pole. ...
But yet in the novitiate of their love,
And tenderness of youth, suffice small shoots
Cut from the widow'd willow, nor provide
Poles unsurmountable as yet. 'Tis then,
When twice bright Phœbus' vivifying ray,
Twice the cold touch of Winter's icy hand,
They've felt; 'tis then we fell sublimer props.





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