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With ftoic pride, imperfect charms defpife, 

 Beauty, like Virtue, knows no groveling mean. 



Who, but muft pity that penurious tafte, 

 Which down the quick-defcending vale prolongs, 425 



Slope below flope, a ftiff and unlink'd chain 

 Of flat canals ; then leads the Granger's eye 

 To fome predeftin'd flation, there to catch 

 Their feeming union/ and the fraud approve ? 

 Who but muft change that pity into fcorn, 430 



If down each verdant flope a narrow flight 

 Of central fteps decline, where the fpare ftream 

 Steals trickling j or, withheld by cunning {kill, 

 Hoards its fcant treafures, till the mafter's nod 

 Decree its fall. Then down the formal flairs 435 



It leaps with fhort-liv'd fury j wafting there, 

 Poor prodigal I what many a fummer's rain, 

 And many a Winter's mow mail late reftore. 



Learn, that whene'er in fome fublimer fcene 

 Imperial Nature of her headlong floods 440 



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