Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew, In Eden's pure … - Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew,
In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew.[…]
Gay without toil, and lovely without art,
They spring to cheer the sense, and glad the heart.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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Anna Letitia Barbauld (June 20, 1743 – March 9, 1825) was an English poet and miscellaneous writer.

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Alternative Names: Anna Laetitia Aiken • Anna Letitia Barbauld • Anna Lætitia Barbauld • Ann Letitia Barbauld • Anna (Laetitia) Barbauld

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It is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply,
And souls are ripen'd in our northern sky.

I read his awful name, emblazon'd high
With golden letters on th' illumin'd sky.

Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew, In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew.[…] Gay without toil, and lovely without art, They spring to che… - Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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