SECT. XI. OF RURAL GARDEN INC. \$6 



Speed whittling home acrofs the plain : 

 Sees vagrant Luxury, her hand-maid grown, 

 For half her gracelefs deeds atone, 

 And hails the bounteous work, and ranks it with her own* 



Why brand thefe pleafures with the name 

 Of foft, unfocial toils,, of indolence and Ihame ? 

 Search but the garden,. or the wood, 

 Let yon admir'd carnation own, 

 Not all was meant for raiment or for food, 



Not all for needful ufe alone ; 

 There while the feeds of future bloflbrris dwell, 

 'Tis colour'd for the fight, perfum'd to pleafe the ffnelL 



Why knows the nightingale to fing ? 



Why flows the pine's ne&arious juice ? 

 Why mines with paint the linnet's wing ? 



For fullenance alone ? for ufe ? 

 For prefervation? Every fphere 

 Shall bid fair Pleafure's rightful claim appear, 

 And fure there feem of human kind, 



Some born to fhun the folemn ftrife ; 

 Some for amuffcve talks deiign'd, 

 To foothe the certain ills of life ; 

 Grace its lone vales with many a budding rofe, 

 New founts of blifs difclofe, 

 Call forth refrefhing (hades, and decorate repofe. 



Mr. Shenjlone fucceeded admirably in laying out hij 

 grounds, and producing a delightful fcene about the 

 Leaf/wes, Several gentlemen have done great things 

 in pidurefque gardening, without the afhilance ol pro- 

 teiTional artifts; but they have had a peculiar talent this 

 way, improved by ftudy and obfervation. Thus Mr. 

 Walpcle makes an eafy affair of it, and fays, " the 

 pofleflbr, if he has any tafte, is the belt defigner of his 

 own grounds." And indeed, as thev have come fo 

 frequently under his own eye and contemplation, he 

 mult, in a great meafure, be competent to the work ; 

 and at leaft, ought not to give up his judgment too im- 

 plicitly to general undertakers of rural gardening. 



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