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ture : fruit-trees, herbs, water, etc. The pieces 

 I am speaking of are Virgil's account of the 

 garden of the old Corycian and Homer's of that 

 of Alcinous. The first of these is already 

 known to the Bnglish reader by the excellent 

 versions of Mr. Dryden and Mr. Addison. The 

 other having never been attempted in our 

 language with any elegance, and being the 

 most beautiful plan of this sort that can be 

 imagined, I shall here present the reader with a 

 translation of it. 



THE GARDEN OF AI,CINOUS. 

 FROM HOMER'S ODYSSEY, vii. 



" Close to the gates a spacious garden lies, 

 From storms defended and inclement skies : 

 Four acres was the allotted space of ground, 

 Fenc'd with a green enclosure all around. 

 Tall thriving trees confess the fruitful mould ; 

 The red'ning apple ripens here to gold ; 

 Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows, 

 With deeper red the full pomegranate glows ; 

 The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, 

 And verdant olives flourish round the year. 

 The balmy spirit of the western gale 

 Eternal breathes on fruits untaught to fail : 

 Each dropping pear a following pear supplies, 

 On apples apples, figs on figs arise ; 

 The same mild season gives the blooms to blow, 

 The buds to harden, and the fruits to grow. 



" Here order'd vines in equal ranks appear, 

 With all the united labors of the year. 



