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While with delight my wand'ring Eye surveys Creation's ample round! this mundane scene, How wide, how glorious, how with wonders fill'd How elevating to th'admiring mind! Here animated nature with her train Her mighty, her inumerable train Inhabiting Earth, Atmosphere, and Sea In species rang'd, various of strength and sign Distinguish'd by inumerable forms. Some led by wondrous instinct, some endow'd With god like reasoning powers, in action all Exhibit, all the various modes of Life: While vegetation robes the fertile Earth In varied verdure, or in gay brocades, While vegetation from her liberal hand Deals to the sons of Life their sustenance To her the learned Bottanist applies For every health restoring herb By her kind influence the buried grain This is propitious to the hopes of Man By her kind influence ˄ [[addition]] fair [[/addition]] flora smiles
