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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    (Prince of Europa’s ftreams, itfelf a fea) 151 Equals your potency! Did planters know But half your virtues; not the Cane itfelf, Would they with greater, fonder pains preferve ! Sritxt other maladies infeft the Cane, 155 And worfe to be fubdu’d. The infe&-tribe That, ‘fluttering, fpread their pinions to the fun, ~ Recal the mufe; nor fhall their many eyes, | Tho’ edg’d with gold, their many-colour’d down, From. Death preferve them. In what diftant climes’: -‘f' gh i iia 160 In what receffes are the plunderers hatch’d ? Say, are they wafted in the living gale, From diftant iflands? Thus, the locuft-breed, In winged caravans, that blot the fky, Defcend from far, and, ere bright morning dawn, Aftonifh’d Afric fees her crop devour’d, . 166 Or, doth the Cane a proper neft afford, And food adapted to the yellow fly ? —— The fkill’d in Nature’s myftic lore obferve, Each tree, each plant, that drinks the golden day, | ; bey (170 Some reptile life fuftains: Thus cochinille _ Feeds Ver. 141. Thus cochinille] This is a Spanith word, For the
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