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 But who hall now the thriving Plants decribe,

The Ever-greens, that quickning June imbile,

And furnih new Recruits to Levi's Tribe?

Sons of the Prophets at Gamaliel's Feet,

Who extract Learning, then refin't to wit,

By the laborious Lymbeck of the Brain,

Condene the Sp'rit, and let the Humid parts remain,

No loytring Sing-ong Mues trifle here,

Weaving THIN FANCY into Webs of Air;

But here they Wed the Sciences for Wives,

And beat like Hemp at Bridewell for their Lives:

Th' Enquirers here to Ida's Top apire,

Parnaus coolet Springs, can only quench their Fire.

To Learning's highet Pinacles attain,

By trong aiduous Travel of the Brain,

Ravih the Mues, in their Deeps delight,

And learn with the ame Fury as they fight;

To curious earch, to things, and Books o pret,

The Ancients or the Moderns find no ret,

Till Univeral Knowledge fills the Mind,

And all the Soul's from Dros, and Ignorance refin'd.

Hence they to ev'ry trong Attainment reach,

And what they learn o well, as well they teach;

In ev'ry Art, in ev'ry Science grow,

Not proud of knowing, but are proud to know.