Pomegranate, pear, the apple blushing bright,

The honeyed fig, and unctuous olive smooth.

Those fruits nor winter’s cold nor summer’s heat

Fear ever, fail not, wither not, but hang

Perennial, whose unceasing zephyr breathes

Gently on all, enlarging these, and those

Maturing genial; in an endless course

Pears after pears to full dimensions swell,

Figs follow figs, grapes clustering grow again

Where clusters grew, and (every apple stripped)