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 There Seeds of Science carefully they ow,

Here cultivate the Soil, to make 'em grow,

Plant, Prune, Inocculate, the Seaons tend,

And ev'ry fruitful Scyon to its Stock they bend.

See here how ev'ry Plant in order thrives,

And pight of Clime the tend'ret Bloom lives.

Here Epicks thick, as Groves of Laurel grow,

And trong Heroicks, plac'd in Walks below,

Lyricks and Patorals in even Layes,

And Panygericks circled round with Bays,

There Knowledge grows, for Quantity and Kind,

The bet, and bet prepar'd t' intruct the Mind,

Temper'd with Modety, 'tis et by Zeal

Fitted her rah Infections to repell.

Next this in contant Bloom's a Range of Wit,

And ev'ry day 'tis weeded of Conceit,

Kept thin, intrench'd, and never runs to eed,

But ripens gently in its flowry Bed;

For Wit's a Plant o apt to grow in hate,

It hakes the Root, and then decays as fat.