12 THE ENGLISH GARDEN, 



Though cloath'd with fofteft verdure, though reliev'd 



By many a gentle fall and eafy fwell, 190 



Expects that harmony of light, and (hade, 



Which foliage only gives. Come then, ye plants ! 



That, like the village troop when Maia dawns, 



Delight to mingle focial ; to the creft 



Of yonder brow we fafely may conduct 195 



Your numerous train, no eye obflrucled there 



Will blame your interpos'd fociety > 



But, on the plain below, in lingle Hems 



Difparted, or in fparing groups diftinft, 



Wide muft ye Hand,, in wild, diforder'd mood, 200 



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As if the feeds from which your fcyons fprang 



Had there been fcatter'd from the affrighted beak 



Of fome maternal bird whom the fierce Hawk 



Purfued with felon claw. Her young meanwhile 



Callow, and cold, from their mofs-woven nefi 205 



Peep forth j they ftretch their little eager throats 



Broad to the wind, and plead to the lone fpray 



Their famifh'd plaint importunately fhrill. 



Yet 



