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FINE FIGURE OF A NYMPH, THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS by ERASMUS DARWIN

First Line: GIGANTIC NYMPH! THE FAIR KLEINHOVIA REIGNS
Last Line: AND BEARS HER TREMBLING LOVER IN HER ARMS.
Subject(s): GIANTS; HERCULES; LOVE; MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL; NYMPHS;
GIGANTIC Nymph! the fair KLEINHOVIA reigns,
The grace and terror of Orixia's plains.
O'er her warm cheek the blush of beauty swims,
And nerves Herculean bend her sinewy limbs;
With frolic eye she views the affrighted throng,
And shakes the meadows as she towers along;
With playful violence displays her charms,
And bears her trembling lover in her arms.



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