3 o THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 



With more majeftic foliage. Cedars here, 



Coeval with the fky-crown'd mountain's felf, 



Spread wide their giant arms ; whence, from a rock 



Craggy and black, that feem'd its fountain head, 



The ftream fell headlong ; yet ftill higher rofe, 



Ev'n in th' eternal fnow of Lebanon, 



That hallow'd fpring $ thence, in the porous earth 



Long while ingulph'd, its cryftal weight here forc'd 



Its way to light and freedom. Down it dafh'd ; 



A bed of native marble pure, receiv'd 540 



The new-born Naiad, and repos'd her wave, 



Till with o'er-flowing pride it fkim'd the lawn. 



Fronting this lake there rofe a folemn grot, 

 O'er which an ancient vine luxuriant flung 

 Its purple clutters, and beneath its roof 54.5 



An unhewn altar. Rich Sabaean gums 

 That altar pil'd, and there with torch of pine 

 The venerable Sage, now firfl defcry'd, 

 The fragrant incenfe kindled. Age had fhed 



That 



