Some clothe the soil that feeds them, far diffused 

 And lowly creeping, modest and yet fair, 

 Like virtue, thriving most where little seen ; 

 Some, more aspiring, catch the neighbour shrul) 

 With clasping tendrils, and invest his branch. 

 Else unadorn'd, with many a gay festoon 

 And fragrant chaplet, recompensing well 

 The strength they borrow with the grace they lend." 



Cow PER. 



314 



