HERB - "Hortulus" - "Southernwood"

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Here's a second short one - Raisya

"VI.  Southernwood

	Admire too the tall bushes of southernwood
With their bloom of down, and the sharp spikes
Which grow on its wealth of branches like finest hair.
It is good to mix the scented sprigs, plucked
With the supple stem, into healing medicines.
It has power against fevers, banishes stitch, and if
Your limbs ache with the elusive and mysterious
Pain of gout, it will bring relief.  Indeed
As many virtues it has as strands of foliage."


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