TO

DRC DARWIN

Wur Sargent winds with fond and curious eyes Thro' every mazy region of“the mine--" While, as entrancing forms around him riſe,

With magic light the mineral kingdoms ſhine;

Behold! amid the vegetable bloom, O DARWIN, thy ambroßfial rivers flow, And ſuns more pure the fragrant earth illume,

As all the vivid plants with paſſion glow.

Les!

I trace thy ſpirit thro' the kindling whole;

and, wheree'er with life creation teems,

As with new radiance to the genial beams OF Science, Hles EmEerge, Or OCCaNs 1011; And Nature, in primordial beauty, ſeems To breathe, infpir'd by Thee, the PHILOSO0PHIC SouL!| R. POLWHEAELE.

Kenton, near Exeter, April 18, 1792.