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CARDENS, WREATHS, &c. 
There blooms exotic beauty, warm and snug, 
While the winds whistle, and the snows de¬ 
scend. 
The spiry myrtle with unwith’ring leaf 
Shines there, and flourishes. The golden 
boast 
Of Portugal and western India there. 
The ruddier orange, and the paler lime. 
Peep through their polish’d foliage at the 
storm. 
And seem to smile at what they need not fear. 
Th’ amomum there with intermingling flow’rs 
And cherries hangs her twigs. Geranium 
boasts 
Her crimson honours, and the spangled beaux, 
Ficoides, glitters bright the winter long. 
All plants, of ev’ry leaf, that can endure 
The winter’s frown, if screen’d from his 
shrewd bite, 
Live there, and prosper. Those Ausonia 
claims, 
Levantine regions these ; th’ Azores send 
Their jessamine, her jessamine remote 
Caffraria: foreigners from many lands, 
They form one social shade, as if conven’d 
By magic summons of the Orphean lyre. 
Yet just arrangement, rarely brought to pass 
But by a master’s hand, disposing well 
