THE ENGLISH GARDEN. n 



Is broken into ample parts, and bold j 

 Where to the eye three well-mark'd diftances 

 Spread their peculiar colouring. Vivid green, 

 Warm brown and black opake the foreground bears 

 Confpicuous ; fober olive coldly marks 19 



The fecond diftance ; thence the third declines 

 In fofter blue, or lefs'ning ftill is loft 

 In fainteft purple. When thy tafle is call'd 

 To adorn a fcene where Nature's felf prefents 

 All thefe diftinct gradations, then rejoice 195 



As does the painter, and like him apply 

 Thy colours ; plant thou on each feparate part 

 Its proper foliage. Chief, for there thy {kill 

 Has its chief fcope, enrich with all the hues 

 That flowers, that (hrubs, that trees can yield, the fides 200 

 Of that fair path, from whence our fight is led 

 Gradual to view the whole. Where'er thou wind'ft 

 That path, take heed between the fcene, and eye, 

 To vaiy and to mix thy chofen greens. 



Here for a while with cedar or with larch, 205 



C 2 That 



