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26 The Floral King.
the light of his genius, with devout feelings he
read the Book of Nature, which his diligence
had unsealed, he felt himself supremely happy
beyond the measure of most mortals. His mind
and eyes, strained by assiduous night work, always
found an additional smiling reward when he took
a walk amongst the beautiful daughters of Flora
in the Botanical Garden.
In the autumn of 1729 a letter arrived from
his father, earnestly and lovingly entreating him
to leave Upsala and return home to try and
prevail upon himself to take clerical orders. The
great privations he endured did not set him against
pursuing his favourite study, but he thought it due
to filial obedience to follow his father’s earnest
desire, seeing that through his poverty he was un-
able to remain long enough at the University to
properly develop his great faculties. With lingering
steps he repaired once more to the beautiful
botanical garden to bid farewell to the place he
loved so well, and to gaze for the last time
upon the darling children of Flora, which from
many distant climes had been transplanted thither.
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