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NYG(B.731.011
17-24 May 1731:12 (291)
For thee, sweet month, the groves green liv'ries wear,
If not the first, the fairest of the year,
For thee the graces led the dancing hours,
And nature's ready pencil paints the flow'rs.
. . . [8 lines by Dryden; this poem is inserted in an
article on the month of May and its influence on people,
especially women.]
___That fair field of Enna, where Proserpine gathering
flowers,
Her self a fairer flower by gloomy Dis
Was gathered_______
. . . [4 more lines by Milton were inserted in the above
article on the month of May and its influence on people,
especially women.]
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