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a ower We nownere art do so triumphant see, 

 divine As when it grafts or buds the tree ; 



In other things we count it to excel, 

 If it a docile scholar can appear 

 To nature, and but imitate her well ; 

 It overrules, and is her master here, 

 It imitates her Maker's power divine, 

 And changes her sometimes, and sometimes 



does refine : 



It does, like grace, the fallen tree restore 

 To its blest state of Paradise before : 

 Who would not joy to seeHisconqueringhand 

 O'er all the vegetable world command ? 

 And the wild giants of the wood receive 



What law He's pleased to give? 

 He bids th' ill-natured crab produce 

 The gentler apple's winy juice ; 



The golden fruit, that worthy is 



Of Galatea's purple kiss; 



He does the savage hawthorn teach 



To bear the medlar and the pear; 

 He bids the rustic plum to rear 



A noble trunk, and be a peach. 



Even Daphne's coyness he does mock, 



And weds the cherry to her stock, 



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