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Yet in this wild diforder Art prefides, 



Defigns, correcls,. and regulates the whole, 210 



Herfelf the while unfeea. No cedar broad 

 Drops his dark curtain where a diflant fcene 

 Demands diftin&ion. Here the thin abele 

 Of lofty bole, and bare ;. the fmooth-ftem'd beech, 

 Or (lender alder give our eye free fpace 21^5 



Beneath their boughs to catch each leflening charm 

 Ev'n to the far horizon's azure bound.. 



Nor will that fov'reign Arbitrefs admit, 

 Where'er her nod decrees a. mafs of fhade, 

 Plants of difcordant fort, unequal fize, 220 



Or rul'd by Foliation's different law y 

 Studious, with juft feleclion, thofe to join 

 That earlieft flourifh, and that lateft fade.. 



Nor will that fov'reign Arbitrefs devote 



To ftrange, and alien foils, her feedling ftems ; 223 



Fix the dank fallow on the mountain's brow, 



Or, 



