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And, while I woo your Naiads to my aid, 355 



Involve me in impenetrable gloom. 



Bleft be the Man (if blifs be human boaft) 

 Whofe fertile foil is wafli'd with frequent ftreams, 

 And fp rings falubrious. He difdains to tofs 

 In rainbow dews their chryftal to the fun ; 360 



Or fink, in fubterranean cifterns deep - y 

 That fo, through leaden fyphons upward drawn, 

 Thofe ftreams may leap fantaftic. He his ear 

 Shuts to the tuneful trifling of the Bard, * 

 Who trick'd a gothic theme with claflic flowers, 365 



And fung of Fountains burfting from the fhells 

 Of brazen Tritons, fpouting through the jaws 

 " Of Gorgons, Hydras, and Chimaeras dire." 



* Rene Rapin, a learned Jefuit of the laft century, who writ a^ didactic 

 Latin Poem on Gardens, in four books, by way of fupplement to Virgil's 

 Georgics. The third book treats the fubjec'l of water, or mere properly of 

 waterworks, for it is entirely made up of defcriptions of Jet d'eaux, and fuch 

 fort of artificial baubles. 



Peace 



