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Soon as each head with youthful grace receives 

 The verdant curls of fix unfolding leaves ; 

 O, flill tranfplant them on each drizzly morn. 

 Oft as the moon relights her waining horn j 

 Till her bright veft the ftar-clad Virgin trails. 

 Or corn-crown'd Autumn lifts his golden fcales. 

 Then ply the fi:iining hoe with artful toil. 

 Ere the grey night-froft binds the ftiffen'd foil; 

 And, as o'er heaven the rifing Scorpion crawls, 

 Surround the fhuddering (terns with earthen walls. 

 So fhall each plant ereft its leafy form, 

 Unfhook by Autumn's equinoxial ftorm ; 

 And round and fmooth, with filverj veins embofs'd 

 Repel the dew-drops, and evade the froft. 

 Thus on the Stoic's round and polifh'd brows 

 Her venom'd (hafts in vain misfortune throws j 

 By virtue arm'd, he braves the tented field. 

 The innocuous arrows tinkling on his fhield. 



Hence when afcendant rules the watery Star, 

 Or the celeftial Fifiies fwim in air. 

 Thy guarded (talks (hall lift their curled heads. 

 And fringed foliage (hade thy ample beds. 

 Gem with bright emerald Winter's tracklefs fnows. 

 Or bind with leafy wreaths his icy brows. 



When leads the Spring amid her budding groves 



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and the quiver'd 



Again the Bull (hall (hake his radiant hair 



O'er the rich produft of his early 



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I'hcjiar-clad Virgin^ 2 2cl of Au^uft. 

 Scorpion^ aad of 06lober. 



Golden fcalcsy 32(1 of September. 



Evade the froji. One advantage, which vege- 

 tables receive by repelling the water by the upper furfaces of their leaves, is, that it 

 may not incommode their refpiration ; but another is, that by not being thus moiftened 



they are lefs injured by frofl. 

 JVatery Star^ i9tb January. Cclejl'ial Fijhes^ 17th February. 'The Bully 19th April. 



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