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orders is exempt from thofe mifts ; it muft 



ftruggle through them into full and uni- 



I 

 Yerfal day. 



The flowly-accumulating fuffrages of 

 thofe difeerning and generous readers who 

 delight in fertile and daring Genius, will 

 accumulate for the Botanic Garden, as 

 they have for many other poems, whofe 

 early appreciation was dubious ; whofe 

 celebration, during the life of their authors, 

 was far from being uncontroverted. When 

 that time fhall come, the querulous and 

 difdainful tones of peevifh prejudice w r ill 

 not venture to affail the ear of an admiring 

 Nation, proud of it's diftinguifhed Sons. 

 Then, however imperfection may ftill be 

 perceived in this as in all other works of 

 bold imagination, it will be obferved without 

 acrimony, and with grateful delight in it's 

 plenteous atonement. 



No eminent Poet has fo many paffages 

 which are every way exceptionable, as the 



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