THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 7 



Impatient wait a change : the wafte mall fmile 



With yellow harvefb -, what was barren heath ua. 



Shall foon be verdant mead. Now then arife ; 



Now let thy art, in union with his toil, 



Exert its powers, and give, with varying fkill, 



The foil, already tam'd, its finifli'd grace. 



Nor lefs obfequious to the hand of toil, il$ 



If fancy guide that hand, will the dank vale 

 Receive improvement meet : but Fancy here 

 Muft lead, not follow Labour ; me muft tell 

 In what peculiar place the foil mall rife, 



Where fink ; prefcribe what form each fluice (hall wear, 123 

 And how direct its courfe j whether to fpread 

 Broad as a lake, or, as a river pent 

 By fringed banks, weave its irriguous way 

 Thro' lawn and made alternate : for if She 

 Prefide not o'er the tafk, the narrow drains 125 



Will run in tedious parallel, or cut 

 Each other in fharp angles j call her then 



Swift 



