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VIII. 



Linne, by thy experience taught, 

 And ample page so richly fraught 



With scientific lore : 

 I scami'd thy curious system clear, 

 Of plants that court the mountain air, 

 That bloom o'er hills, o'er meadows fair, 



The forest and the moor. 



IX. 



And plants that court the mountain air, 

 That bloom o'er hills, o'er meadows fair. 



The forest and the moor, — 

 That flourish on the rocky steep, 

 Or in the wood's recesses deep, 

 By lucid streams, where willows weep, 



The silvery surface o'er, — 



