*i4 THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 



And amply let it flow, that Nature wears 



On her thron'd eminence : where'er me takes 245 



Her horizontal march, purfue her ftep 



With fweeping train of foreft ; hill to hill 



Unite with prodigality of made. 



There plant thy elm, thy chefnut; nourim there 



Thofe fapling oaks, which, at Britannia's call, 250 



May heave their trunks mature into the main, 



And float the bulwarks of her liberty : 



But if the fir, give it its ftation meet ; 



Place it an outgard to th' afiailing north, 



To fhield the infant fcions, till polTeft 255 



Of native ftrength, they learn alike to fcorn 



The blaft and their protestors. Fofter'd thus, 



The cradled hero gains from female care 



His future vigor; but, that vigor felt, 



He fprings indignant from his nurfe's arms, 260 



He nods the plumy creft, he (hakes the fpear, 



And is that av/ful thing which heav'n ordain'd 



The fcourge of tyrants, and his country's pride. 



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