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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    Eo Not only wells, with ne@ar {weet, thy Canes 3 t ; * Ww HEN. may the planter idly fold his arms,. And fay, ‘* My foul take reft?’”’ Superior ills, 195 Ills which no care nor wifdom can avert, In black fucceffion rife. Ye men of Kent, | me When nipping Eurus, with the brutal force __ uy feel, ~ 200 And pity the poor planter; when the blaft, Fell plague of Heaven! perdition of the ifles! - Attacks his waving gold. Tho’ well-manur’d ; A richnefs tho’ thy fields from nature boat; Though feafons pour ; this peftilence invades: 205 Too oft it feizes the glad infant-throng, Nor pities their green nonage :, Their broad blades Of which the graceful wood-nymphs erft compos’d Unfeemly ftains fucceed ; which, nearer view’d Ver. 20. Though feafons] Without a rainy ‘feafon, the Sugar- cane. could not be cultivated to any advantage: For what Pliny _ Atriguis, et toto anno bibere amat.” Ver. 208. this Paes) It muft, however, be confeffed, that the blaft is lef frequent in fo by well-rooted manure,
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