Martha Glowacki’s Natural History, Observations and Reflections Martha Glowacki’s Natural History | Page 51

what art thou talking of
wait two years
Think Man & Know how to
Value so great a Rarity I Read of it & Seen It
Figur’d in Books, but
despaired of ever
Possessing it—
As thou grudgest the Time
& so little Esteems It I
shall be Carefull where I
cast my Pearls another time my Botanic Genius carried
Mee into a Garden
where I expected to find
Nothing—
For I waited almost all my
lifetime for to get this
Rare flower on a Sudden my Eyes was
ravished with the Sight
of this flower and my Heart
leaped for Joy—that
I should find it at last
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