26 THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 



Permits our imitation, ihe herfelf 



Prepares their refervoir ; conceal'd perchance 



In neighbring hills, where fail it well behoves 



Our toil to fearch, and fludioufly augment 



With fidelong fprings and fluices frequent drawn 445 



From pools, that on the heath drink up the rain. 



Be thefe collected, like the Mifer's gold, 



In one increafing fund, nor dare to pour 



Down thy impending mound the bright cafcade 



Till richly fure of its redundant fall. 450 



That mound to raife alike demands thy toil, 

 Ere Art adorn it's furface. Here adopt 

 That facile mode which His inventive powers * 

 Firft plann'd, who led to rich Mancunium's mart 

 His long-drawn line of navigated ftream. 455 



Stupendous talk ! in vain flood towering hills 

 Oppos'd, in vain did ample Irwell pour 



* Mr. Brindley, who executed the Duke of Bridgewater's canal, and in- 

 vented a method of making dams to hold water, without clay, ufing for this 

 purpofe any fort of earth duly temper'd with water. 



Her 



