48 ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CANTO n. 



Pleased for a while the assurgent youth above 

 Relights the golden lamp of life and love; 

 Ah, soon again to leave the cheerful light, 



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And sink alternate to the realms of night. 60 



II. "HENCE ere Vitality, as time revolves, , 

 Leaves the cold organ, and the mass dissolves; 

 The Reproductions of the living Ens 

 From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence. 

 New buds and bulbs the living fibre shoots 

 On lengthening branches, and protruding roots; 

 Or on the father's side from bursting glands 

 The adhering young its nascent form expands ; 

 In branching lines the parent-trunk adorns, 

 And parts ere long like plumage, hairs, or horns. JO 



" So the lone Truffle, lodged beneath the earth, 

 Shoots from paternal roots the tuberous birth; 



So the lone Truffle, 1. 71. Lycoperdon tuber. This plant never 

 rises above the earth, is propagated without seed by its rpots only, 



