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And lowly creeping, modest and yet fair, 



Like virtue, thriving most where little seen ; 



Some, more aspiring, catch the neighbour shrub 



With clasping tendrils, and invest his branch, 



Else unadorn'd, wuth many a gay festoon 



And fragrant chaplet, recompensing well 



The strength they borrow with the grace they lend. 



All hate the rank society of weeds. 



Noisome, and ever greedy to exhaust 



Th' impoverish'd earth ; an overbearing race 



That, like the multitude made faction-mad, 



Disturb good order, and degrade true worth. 



THE GARDEN. 



See, how the lily drinks 



The latent rill, scarce oozing through the grass. 



Of growth luxuriant ; or the humid bank 



In fair profusion decks. Long let us walk, 



Where thS breeze blows from yon extended fiel<l 



Of blossora'd beans. Arabia cannot boast 



A fuller gale of joy, than, liberal, thence 



Breathes through the sense, and takes the ravish'd 



soul. 

 Nor is the mead unworthy of thy foot, 

 Full of fresh verdure, and unnumber'd flow'rs, 



