THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 17 



The pelting ftorm with icy bullets breaks 



Its fragile barrier, fee, they fade, they die. 285 



Warn'd by his error, let the Planter flight 

 Thefe fhiv'ring rarities, or if, to pleafe 

 Faftidious Fafhion, he muft needs allot- 

 Some fpace for foreign foliage, let him chufe 

 A fidelong glade, fhelter'd from eaft and north, 29 



And free to fouthern and to weftern gales ; 

 There let him fix their ftation, thither wind 

 Some devious path, that, from the general whole 

 Detach'd, may lead to where they fafely bloom. 

 So in the web of epic fong fublime 295 



The Bard Maeonian interweaves the charm 

 Of gentle epifode, yet leaves unbroke 

 The golden thread of his majeftic theme. 



What elfe to (him of formal, falfe, or vain, 

 Of long-lin'd Viftas, or plantations quaint 300 



Our former ftrains have taught : Inftru&ion now 



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