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THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 



And lights them to deflrudion ; the fierce blaze 



Sweeps thro' each kindred Vifta ; * Groves to Groves 



Nod their fraternal farewell, and expire. 



And now, elate with fair-earn'd victory, 



The Bard retires, and on the Bank of Thames 510 



Erects his flag of triumph ; wild it waves 



In verdant fplendor, and beholds, and hails 



The King of Rivers, as he rolls along. 



KENT is his bold aflbciate, KENT who felt 



The pencil's power: -j- but, fir'd by higher forms 515 



Of Beauty, than that pencil knew to paint, 



Work'd with the living hues that Nature lent, 



And realiz'd his Landfcapes. Generous He, 



Who 



* See Mr. Pope's Epiftle on falfe fade, infcrib^d to the Earl of Burlington. 

 Few readers, I fuppofe, need be informed that this line alludes to the following 

 Couplet : 



Grove nods to Grove, each alley has a brother, 

 And half the platform juft reflects the other. 



f It is faid that Mr. Kent frequently declared he caught his tafte in garden- 

 ing from reading the picturefque defcripnons of Spenfcr. However this may be 

 the defigns which he made for the worki> of that poet, are an inconteftiblc proof 

 that they had no effedl upon his executive powers as a painter. 



