THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 3,3 



Who gave to Painting, what the wayward Nymph 



Refus'd her Votary, thofe Elyfian fcenes, 520 



Which would me emulate, her daring hand 



Mufl lavifh all its energy fublime. 



On thee too, SOUTH COTE, mall the Mufe beftow 



No vulgar praife : for thou to humblefl things 



Could'ft give ennobling beauties ; deck'd by thee, 525. 



* The fimple Farm eclips'd the Garden's pride^ 



Ev'n as the virgin blufh of innocence, 



The harlotry of Art, Nor, SHENSTONE, thou 



Shalt pafs without thy meed, thou fon of peace ! 



Who knew'ft, perchance, to harmonize thy mades 530 



Still fofter than thy fong ; yet was that fong 



Nor rude, nor inharmonious, when attun'd 



To paftoral plaint, or tale of flighted love.. 



HIM too, the living leader of thy powers, 



Great Nature ! him the Mufe mall hail in notes 535 



Which antedate the praife true Genius claims 



F From 



* Mr. Southcote was the introducer, or rather the inventor of the Ferme orn\ 

 for it may be prefumed that nothing more than the term is of French extraction. 



