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But nothing muft the facred Tree prophane ; 
Some Boughs for Garlands from it may be tan: 
For thofe whofe Arms their Country Men preferve; 
Such are the Honours which the Oaks deferve. 
We know not certainly whence firft of att, 
This Plant did borrow its Original ; 
Weather on Ladon, or on Menalus, 
It grew, if fat Chaonia did produce ; 
It firft, but better from our Mother-Earth, 
Then Moderna Rumours, we may learn thei Birth. 
When Jupiter the World's F oundation laid, — 
Great Earth-born Giants Heaven did invade ; 
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And Jove himfelf, (when thefe he did fubdue,). 
His Lightning on the fattious Brethren threw. 
Tellus her Sons Misfortunes does deplore, 
And while fhe cherifbes the yet warm Gore, 
Of Rhacus, from bis Monjftrous Body grows, 
A vafter Trunk, and from bis Breaft arofe 
A hardned Oak; bis Shoulders ave the fame, 
And Oak his bigh exalted Head became: 
His hundred Arms which lately through the Airs « 
Were fpread, now to as many Boughs repair. 
A feven-fold Bark his now fiff 1 runk does bind; 
And where the Giant flood a Tree we find: 
The Earth to Jove ftrait confécrates this Tree, 
Appeafing fo his ingur’d Deity s 
Then ’twas that Man did the firft Acorn eat: 
Although the Honour of this Plant be great, 
Both for its Shade, and that iu Satred. a; 
Yet when its Branches {boot into the Skies. 
Let them take heed, while with his brandifb’d Flame, 
The Thunder rages, {baking Nature’s Frame. 
Left they be blafied by bis pow rful Hand, 
While Tamarisks fecure, and Mirtles fland. 
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