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 Allows the meanest gardener's board. The wanton taste no fish or fowl can choose For which the grape or melon she would lose, Though all the inhabitants of sea and air Be listed in the glutton's bill of fare;
 * Yet still the fruits of earth we see

Placed the third storey high in all her luxury.

But with no sense the garden does comply, None courts or flatters, as it does the eye; When the great Hebrew king did almost strain The wondrous treasures of his wealth and brain His royal southern guest to entertain,
 * Though she on silver floors did tread,

With bright Assyrian carpets on them spread
 * To hide the metal's poverty;
 * Though she looked up to roofs of gold,
 * And nought around her could behold
 * But silk and rich embroidery,
 * And Babylonian tapestry,
 * And wealthy Hiram's princely dye: