The botanic garden. A poem in two parts. Pt. I Containing the Economy of vegetation. Pt. 2. the Loves of the plants. With philosophical notes / [Erasmus Darwin].

  • Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802.
Date:
1794-1795
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Credit: The botanic garden. A poem in two parts. Pt. I Containing the Economy of vegetation. Pt. 2. the Loves of the plants. With philosophical notes / [Erasmus Darwin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ vli j TO Dr. DARWIN. w HILE Sargent winds with fond and curious eyes Thro’ every mazy region of “ the mine——” While, as entrancing forms around him rife, With magic light the mineral kingdoms fhine ; Behold ! amid the vegetable bloom, 0 Darwin, thy ambrofial rivers flow. And funs more pure the fragrant earth illume, xA.s all the vivid plants with paflion glow. Yes!—and, ivheree’er with life creation teems, 1 trace thy fpirit thro’ the kindling whole; As with new radiance to the genial beams Of Science, ifles emerge, or oceans roll. And Nature, in primordial beauty, feems To breathe, infpir’d by Thee, the PHILOSOPHIC SOUL ! R. POLWHELE. Kenton, near Exeter, April i8, 1792.