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36. And here I conclude, summing up all the 

 good qualities, and transcendent perfections of trees, 

 in the harmonious poet's consort of eulogies. 



1 Pines are for masts an useful wood, 



Cedar and cypress, to build houses good : 



Hence covers for their carts, and spokes for wheels 

 Swains make, and ships do form their crooked keels ; 

 With twiggs the sallows, elms with leaves are fraight ; 

 Myrtles stout spears, and cornel good for fight : 

 The yews into Ityrean bows are bent ; 

 Smooth limes, and box, the turners instrument 

 Shaves into form, and hollow cups does trim ; 

 And down the rapid Po light alders swim : 

 In hollow bark bees do their honey stive, 

 And make the trunk of an old oak their hive. 



And the most ingenious Ovid, where he introduces 

 the miraculous groves rais'd by the melodious song 

 of Orpheus, 



2 Nor trees of Chaony, 



The poplar, various oaks that pierce the sky, 

 Soft linden, smooth-rind beech, unmarried bays, 

 The brittle hasel, ash, whose spears we praise, 

 Unknotty fir, the solace shading planes, 



1 dant utile lignum 



Navigiis pinos, domibus cedrumque cupressosque ; 

 Hinc radios trivere rotis, hinc tympana plaustris 

 Agricolae, & pandas ratibus posuere carinas. 

 Viminibus salices, fecundae frondibus ulmi : 

 At myrtus validis hastilibus, & bona bello 

 Cornus : Ityraeos taxi torquentur in arcus. 

 Nee tilia; leves, aut torno rasile buxum, 

 Non formam accipiunt ferroque cavantur acuto : 

 Nee non & torrentem undam levis innatat alnus 

 Missa Pado, nee non & apes examina condunt 

 Corticibusque cavis, vitiosaeque ilicis alveo : 



Georg. 2. 



2 non Chaonis abfuit arbor, 



Non nemus Heliadum, non frondibus aesculus altis, 

 Nee tiliae molles nee fagus, & innuba laurus, 

 Et coryli fragiles, & fraxinus utilis hastis ; 

 Enodisque abies, curvataque glandibus ilex, 



