<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines Addressed To Dr. Darwin, Author Of The 'Botanic Garden.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two Poets, (poets, by report,<br>Not oft so well agree,)<br>Sweet harmonist of Flora's court!<br>Conspire to honour thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They best can judge a poet's worth,<br>Who oft themselves have known <br>The pangs of a poetic birth<br>By labours of their own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We therefore pleased extol thy song,<br>Though various yet complete,<br>Rich in embellishment as strong,<br>And learned as 'tis sweet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No envy mingles with our praise;<br>Though, could our hearts repine<br>At any poet's happier lays,<br>They would -- they must at thine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we, in mutual bondage knit<br>Of friendship's closest tie,<br>Can gaze on even Darwin's wit<br>With an unjaundiced eye;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And deem the Bard, whoe'er he be,<br>And howsoever known,<br>Who would not twine a wreath for thee,<br>Unworthy of his own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537633" data-title="Lines Addressed To Dr. Darwin, Author Of The 'Botanic Garden. de William Cowper" data-description="Two Poets, (poets, by report, Not oft so well agree,) Sweet harmonist of Flora's court! Conspire to honour thee. They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own. We therefore..."></div> </div> </div>

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