Upon The Priory Grove His Usual Retirement
Hail sacred shades
cool, leavy House
Chaste treasurer of all my vows,
And wealth
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Hail sacred shades
cool, leavy House
Chaste treasurer of all my vows,
And wealth
Here the white-ray'd anemone is born,
Wood-sorrel, and the varnish'd buttercup;
And primrose in its purfled green swathed up,
Pallid and sweet round every budding thorn,