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Clofe was the vale and mady -, yet, erelong 

 Its foreft fides retiring, left a lawn 

 Of ample circuit, where the widening ftream 

 Now, o'er its pebbled channel, nimbly tript 515} 



In many a lucid maze. From the flower'd verge 

 Of this clear rill now flray'd the devious path, 

 Amid ambrofial tufts where fpicy plants, - 

 Weeping their perfum'd tears of myrrh, and nard,> 

 Stood crown'd with Sharon's rofe;. or where, apart,, 520^ 

 The patriarch Palm his load of fugar'd dates 

 Shower'd plenteous , where the Fig, of flandard flrength, 

 And rich Pomegranate wrapt, in dulcet pulp,,. 

 Their racy feeds j or where, with golden fruit 

 Mature, the Citron wav'd its fplendid bough; 525, 



Meanwhile the lawn beneath the fcatter'd made 

 Spread its ferene extent; a ftately file 

 Of circling Cyprefs mark'd the diftant bound. 



Now, to the left, the path afcending pierc'd* 

 A fmaller fylvan theatre, yet deck'd 530 



With 



