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C H A P T E R VI. 



WE now come to yet more playful com- 

 pofition in the fecond part of this Poem, 

 as the floral fyftem is a lighter and lefs 

 important theme than the elementary pro- 

 perties, however generally gay the robes in 

 which poetic imagination has drefled them 

 both ; but let it never be forgotten that 

 the fexual nature of plants has a demon- 

 ftrated existence. 



The Preface to this fecond part is a 

 compendium .of the Linnean fyftem. The 

 Poem makes lively, yet very modeft claims 

 for the fucceeding metamorphofes, amid 

 whofe lighter graces we meet with paffages 

 of intrinfic grandeur and fublimity. 



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