THE POETRY OF FLOWERS. 
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CUPID INSPIRING PLANTS v\TTH 
LOVE. 
BY DYER. 
Teeming with Nature’s lively hues, 
I bid thee welcome, genial Spring ! 
While fancy wakes her thousand lyres, 
And woods and v ales responsive sing. 
She comes; lo ! Winter scowls away; 
Harmonious forms start forth to view; 
Nymphs tripping light in circles gay, 
Deck’d in their robes of virgin hue. 
Then I, on am’rous sportings bent, 
Like a sly archer take my stand ; 
Wide through the world my shafts are sent j 
4nd every creature owns my hand. 
First man, the lord of all below, 
A captive sinks beneath my dart; 
And lovely woman, made to glow, 
Yields the dominion of her heart. 
Through sea, and earth, and boundless sky. 
The fond subjection all must prove, 
Whether they swim the stream or fly, 
Mountain, or vale, or forest rove. 
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