16 T/HE ENGLISH GARDEN. 



The fleecy foragers will gladly browfe; 



The velvet herbage free from weeds .obfcene 



Shall fpread its equal car.pet, .and .the trench 280 



Be pafture to its bafe. Thus form thy fence 



Of {lone, for {lone alone, and pil'd on high, 



Beft curbs the nimble deer, that love to range 



Unlimited ; but where tame heifers feed, 



Qr innocent meep, an humbler mound will ferve 285 



Unlin'd with {lone, and but a green-fwerd trench. 



Here midway down, .upon the nearer bank 



Plant thy thick row of thorns, and, to defend 



Their infant moots, beneath, on oaken flakes, 



Extend a rail of elm, fecurely arm'd 290 



With fpiculated pailing, in fuch fort 



As, round fome citadel, the engineer 



Directs his {harp floccade. But when the {hoots 



Condenfe, and interweave their prickly boughs 



Impenetrable, then withdraw their guard, 295 



They've done their office ; fcorn thou to retain,. 



What frowns like military art, in fcenes, 



Where 



