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 Though Ophir's starry stones met everywhere her eye; Though she herself and her gay host were dressed With all the shining glories of the East; When lavish art her costly work had done;
 * The honour and the prize of bravery

Was by the Garden from the Palace won; And every rose and lily there did stand
 * Better attired by Nature's hand:

The case thus judged against the king we see, By one that would not be so rich, though wiser far than he.

Nor does this happy place only dispense
 * Such various pleasures to the sense:
 * Here health itself does live,

That salt of life, which does to all a relish give, Its standing pleasure, and intrinsic wealth, The body's virtue, and the soul's good fortune, health. The tree of life, when it in Eden stood,