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Ah! then, how dear the Muse's favours cost, If those paint sorrow best—who feel it most!

'The well-sung woes shall soothe my pensive ghost; 'He best can paint them who shall feel them most.' Pope's Eloisa to Abelard, 366th line.

 

Anemonies, that spangled every grove.

Anemony Nemeroso. The wood Anemony. 