As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crushed or trodden to the ground Diffuse their balmy sweets around.


In: Roger Lonsdale (ed.), The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, Oliver Goldsmith, The Captivity, Act I


As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crushed or trodden to the ground Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crushed or trodden to the ground Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crushed or trodden to the ground Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crushed or trodden to the ground Diffuse their balmy sweets around.