28 THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 



With languid ftreamers, and with folded fails, 



Float in a lake of gold. The wind was hufh'd;. 495 



And, to the beech, each flowly-lifted wave,. 



Creeping with filver curl, juft kift the more,. 



And flept in filence. At this tranquil hour 



Did Sidon's fenate; and the Grecian hoft, 



Led by the conqueror of the world, approach- 500 



The fecret glade that veil'd the man of toil. 



Now near the mountain's foot the chief arriv'd, 

 Where, round that glade, a pointed aloe fcreen, 

 Entwin'd with myrtle, met in tangled brakes, 

 That bar'd all entrance, fave at one low gate, . 505 . 



Whofe time- disjointed arch with ivy chain'd, 

 Bad ftoop the warrior train. A pathway browa 

 Led thro' the pafs, meeting a fretful brook, 

 And wandering near its channel, while it leapt 

 O'er many a rocky fragment, . where rude Art . 510 



Perchance had help'd, but not prefcrib'd its. way;.'. 



