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VERTUMNUS

AND

POMONA:

From the Fourteenth Book of

OVID's METAMORPHOSES.

 

he fair Pomona flourish'd in his reign;
Of all the virgins of the sylvan train,
None taught the trees a nobler race to bear,
Or more improv'd the vegetable care.
To her the shady grove, the flow'ry field,
The streams and fountains, no delights could yield;

'Twas