Flora's Gala (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Flora's Gala<br><br>And appointed the place for her splendid Review<br>At the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew.<br><br>The Sylphs and the Fairies, the Fays and the Elves,<br>Whom the Poets say somewhat resemble ourselves;<br>And the Gnomes, who they tell us are ugly form'd creatures,<br>Unlike human beings, in voices and features,<br>Were created by fancy and form'd in the mind,<br>And therefore were never yet seen by mankind.<br><br>The Sylphs guard the beautiful, sweet-scented Flowers.<br>Which chiefly delight in the Gardens and Bowers;<br>And each, as transparent as chrystalline spar,<br>Floats, sweetly perfum'd, in a Soap Bubble Car;<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.