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What coîûuringt what freedom of pendit iv&af landjcape, in 



thefe ii?ies, 



from that faphire fount the crifped brooks, 



RoUing on orient pearl and fands of gold, 

 With mazy error under pendent fhades 

 Ran nedlar, vifiting each plant, and fed 

 Flow'rs worthy of Paradife, which not nîce art 

 In beds and curions knots, but nature boon 

 Pour'd forth profufe on hill and dale and plain, 

 Both where the morning fun firll warmly fmote 

 The openjield, and where the unpierc'd fhade 

 Imbrown'd the noon-tide bow'rs. — Thus was this place 

 A happy rural feat of various vlew. 



Read this tranfporting defcriptîon, paint to your mînd the 

 fcenes that follow, contraji them with the favage but refpeêi"- 

 able terror with which the poet guards the bounds of his 

 Paradife, fenced 



with the champain head 



Of a fteep wildernefs, whofe hairy fides 

 With thicket overgrown, grotefque and wild 

 Accefs deniedj and over head upgrew 



infuperable 



