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that is no reason for their total abolition. There is a great want of sitting 

 accommodation in most of our best gardens, and yet nothing can be easier 

 to provide. Many of the seats at the Leasowes consist of a single slab fixed 

 at the root of one, or upon the stumps of two trees. Unless in very wild 

 scenery, such seats are scarcely admissible ; but stone, wood, and cast iron 

 are available everywhere ; and, izi many positions, rustic wooden chairs are 

 the most appropriate and useful. In many a secluded nook and shady dell 

 Shenstone's inscription on his root-house might reappear without violating 

 any sense of propriety or infringing upon good taste :— 



*' Here, in cool grot and mossy cell. 

 We rural fays and fairies dwell ; 

 Though rarely seen by mortal eye, 

 T\Tien the pale moon, ascending hip'), 

 Darts through yon limes her quiv'riaj,' beams, 

 We frisk it near these crystal streams. 



Her beams, reflected from the wave. 

 Afford the light our revels crave ; 

 The turf, with daisies broider'd o'er. 

 Exceeds, we wot, the Parian floor ; 

 Is"or yet for artful strains we call. 

 But listen to the waterfall. 



Woiild you, then, taste our tranquil scene. 

 Be sure your bosoms be serene. 

 Devoid of hate, devoid of strife. 

 Devoid of all that poisons life. 

 And much it 'vails you, in their place. 

 To graft the love of human race. 



And tread with awe these favour'd bowers, 

 If or wound the shrubs, nor bruise the flowers ; 

 60 may your path with sweets abound. 

 So may your couch with rest be crown'd : 

 But harm betide the wayward swain 

 Who dares our hallow'd haunts profane." 



D. T. F. 



