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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    For oft the glebe, and all its waving load, Will journey, forc’d off by the mining rain; _ And, with its faithlefs burthen, difarrange Phy neighbour’s vale. So Markley-hill of old, 1g0 As fung thy bard, Pomona, (in thefe ifles Yet unador’d;) with all its fpreading trees, Full fraught with apples, chang’d its lofty fite. Bur, as in life, the golden mean is bett ; So happieft he whofe green plantation lies 195 Nor from the hill too far, nor from the fhore. PLANTER, if thou with wonder wouldft furvey Redundant harvefts load thy willing foil; Let fun and rain mature thy deep-hocd la . And. old. fat dung co. “dbt ate with thefe. 200 Be this *dreat truth fill prevent to thy mind; The half well-cultur’d far exceeds the whole, Which luft of gain, unconfcious of its end, Ungrateful vexes with unceafing toil, As,not hae the richeft lands grow poor And ncaa may, in future times, If too much urg’d, her barrennefs bewail: So cultivation, on the fhalloweft foil, O’erfpread with rocky cliffs, will bid the Cane, ‘With fpiry pomp, all-bountifully rife. 210 : Thus Britain’s flag, fhould difcipline relent, - ; 3 205 Ver. 206, And Liamuiga] The Caribbean name of St, Chrif toph os C 3 oe ‘Spite pe w+ So ee al ~ . - a aS i 9 ‘ See b ; eae a? ai
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