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ZOONOMIAi OR)

THE LAWS OF

ORGANIC

THREfe PARTS.

IN

By

LIFE

ERASMUS DARWIN,

M.D.RR.S,

AUTHOR OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN, PHYTOLOGIA, &C

Principid cceium, ac terras, campofque liquentes, lunse, titaniaque aftra,

Lucentemque globum

alit, totamque infufa per artus molem, et magno fe corpore mifcet. Virg. JEtt. VL

Spiritus intus

Mens

agitat

Earth, on whofe lap a thoufand nations tread* And Ocean, brooding his prolific bed, and filvery zonesj Night's changeful orb, blue pole, Where other worlds encircle other funs* One mind inhabits, one difFufive Soul Wields the large limbs, and mingles with the whole.

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Second American, from the third London Edition, corrected by the Author.

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Lives in new forms,—a line,—*a ring, a tube ; Clofed in the womb with limbs unfinilh'4 laves, Sips with rude mouth the falutary waves ; Seeks round its cell the fanguine ftreams, that

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Seeks with fpread hands the bofom'o velvet orbs, With clofing lips the milky fount abforba 3 And, as comprefs'd the dulcet ftreams diftil,

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