4 THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 



What marvel if they flray'd, as yet unfkill'd 5 



To mark the form of that peculiar curve,. 



Alike averfe to crooked and to ftraight, 



Where fweet Simplicity refides -, which Grace 



And Beauty call their own ; whofe lambent flow 



Charms us at once with fymmetry and eafe. 55 



'Tis Nature's curve, inflindively (he bids 



Her tribes of Being trace it. Down the flope 



Of yon wide field, fee, with its gradual fweep, 



The ploughing fleers conduct their fallow ridge ; 



The peafant, driving thro' each fhadowy lane 60 



His team, that bends beneath th' incumbent weight 



Of laughing CERES,, marks it with his wheel ;. 



At night, and morn, the milkmaid's carelefs ftep 



Has, thro' yon pafture green, from flile to ftile, 



Impreft a kindred curve ; the fcudding hare 65 



Draws to her dew-fprent feat, o'er thymy heaths, 



A path as gently waving ; mark them well j 



Compare, pronounce, that, varying but in iize,. 



Their forms are kindred all ; go then, convinc'd 



That 



