The sugar-cane: a poem in four books with notes / [James Grainger].

  • James Grainger
Date:
1766
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Credit: The sugar-cane: a poem in four books with notes / [James Grainger]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A€tuates thy fons, bold, hofpitable, free : Yet a fertility, unknown of old, |. eS To other climes deny’d, adorns thy hills; Thy vales, thy dells adorns. —O might my ftrain] As far tranfcend the immortal fongs of Greece, As thou the partial fubje@ of their praife! Thy fame fhould float familiar thro’ the world ; 80 Each plant fhould own thy Cane her lawful lord ; Nor fhould old Time, fong ftops the flight of Time, Obfcure thy luftre with his pryeies wing. Scarce lefs impregnated, with every goss Of vegetation, is the red’ brick-mould,. 85 That lies on marly beds. — The renter, this Can {earce exhauft; how happy for the heir! Sucu.the glad foil, from whence Jamaica’s fons Derive their opulence: thrice fertile land, ‘«‘ The pride, the glory of the fea-girt ifles, ge ‘© Which, like to rich and various gems, inlay _ ‘© The unadorned bofom of the deep,” Which firft Columbus’ daring keel explor’d. Davucuters of Heaven, with reverential awe, -Paufe at that god-like name; for not your flights 95 Of happieft fancy, can outfoar his fame. Cotumsus, boaft of fcience, boaft of man! Yet, by the great, the learned, and the wife, Long he td a vifionary ; who, like thee, Could
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