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WITH A PRESENT OF FRUIT IN SPRING.
When the great planet which directs the hours / To dwell with Taurus from the North is borne, / Such virtue rays from each enkindled horn, / Rare beauty instantly all nature dowers; / Nor this alone, which meets our sight, that flowers / Richly the upland and the vale adorn, / But Earth's cold womb, else lustreless and lorn, / Is quick and warm with vivifying powers, / Till herbs and fruits, like these I send, are rife.