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Flora descends, to dress the expecting earth, Awake the germs, and call the buds to birth; Bid each hybernacle its cell unfold, And open silken leaves, and eyes of gold!

Of forest foliage of the firmest shade Enwove by magic hands, the car was made; Oak, and the ample Plane, without entwined, And Beech and Ash the verdant concave lin'd; The Saxifrage, that snowy flowers emboss, Supplied the seat; and of the mural moss The velvet footstool rose, where lightly rest, Her slender feet in Cypripedium drest. The tufted rush, that bears a silken crown, The floating feathers of the thistle's down,