Nor brought their real worth or virtues to the light?”
LI.
How many absent now, more fair than these,
With greater fragrance in lone valleys blow?
Or, if the garden’s flow’ry tribe more please,
Where do the Rose and lovely Vi’let glow?
LII.
The Lily where, and all that num’rous host,
Who claim true praise to innate virtue due;
Or do they merit least who loudest boast,