22r

Facsimile

Transcription

Status: Complete

Dear to the Sun, thou happy plant receive,
The soft impressions Love alone can give.
As still your lasting leaves from change are free,
So may my Chlora boast her constancy:
But may not all my hopes as fruitless prove,
From her I ask a kind return of Love.
While thy fair head shall proudly wave in air,
Thy growing bark her lovely name shall bear,
Together shall they grow, together bloom,
No storms shall harm them, nor shall age consume,
The Nymphs who guard yon fountains chrystal [?].
Or haunt the steep rock's wildly tangled cave;
Each woodland Diety in early spring,
Dancing beneath thy shade thy praise shall sing.
Each tennant of the Wood shall yield to Thee;
Thine shall the praise, and thine the Empress be
Not the dark Fir, the Pine, the Oak alone,
But [?] Palms and shining Holm.
No other leaves my brows shall e'er surround,
No plant but Thee in all my songs be found.

Notes and Questions

Nobody has written a note for this page yet

Please sign in to write a note for this page

Transcription Conventions

Spelling: Maintain original spelling (including u/v, i/j, and ff). Long "s" should be replaced with a regular "s". Terminal long "i" characters are transcribed as "i" not "j".
Hyphenation: Preserve hyphens (including "=" characters) at the ends of lines.
Capitalization: Maintain original
Punctuation: Add modern periods, but don't add punctuation like commas and apostrophes.
Deletions: Deleted characters and words are tagged with "strike" and then displayed with the line through them.
Symbols: For apothecary and alchemical symbols, use these symbols followed by the meaning of the symbol in brackets: Rx [recipe]; ℈ [scruple]; ʒ [dram]; ʒs [half dram]; ℥ [ounce]; ℥s [half ounce]; ℔ [pound].
For roman numerals following symbols that indicate amount, i.e., j=1, ij=2, iij= 3, v=5, type arabic numeral in brackets following roman numeral: i [1], ii [2], iii [3], v [5].
Line Breaks: Hit return once after each line ends. Two returns indicate a new paragraph, which is usually indentation following the preceding sentence in the original. The times at the end of each entry should get their own paragraph, since the software does not support indentation in the transcriptions.
Illegible text: Indicate illegible readings in single square brackets: [Dr?]
A single newline indicates a line-break in the original document, and will not appear as a break in the text in some views or exports. Two newlines indicate a paragraph, and will appear as a paragraph break in all views.