English poem
On A Plant Of Virgin's Bower. Designed To Cover A Garden-Seat.
Thrive, gentle plant! and weave a bower For Mary and for me, And deck with many a splendid flower, Thy foliage large and free. Thou camest from Eartham, and wilt shade (If truly I divine) Some future day the illustrious head Of him who made thee mine. Should Daphne show a jealous frown, And envy seize the bay, Affirming none so fit to crown Such honour'd brows as they, Thy cause with zeal we shall defend, And with convincing power; For why should not the virgin's friend Be crown'd with virgin's bower?
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