THE ENGLISH GARDEN. n 



" Their little blooms are loft ; but here are glades, 180 



" "Circled with made, yet pervious to the fun, 



" Where, if enamell'd with their rainbow-hues, 



" The eye would catch their fplendor : turn thy Tafte, 



" Ev'n in this grafTy circle where we ftand, 



" To form their plots; there weave a woodbine Bower, 185 



" And call that Bower NERINA'S." At the word 



ALCANDER fmil'd ; his fancy inftant form'd 



The fragrant fcene me wiQi'd -, and Love, with Art 



Uniting, foon produc'd the finim'd whole. 



Down to the South the glade by Nature lean'd ; 190 



Art form'd the flope ftill fofter, opening there 

 Its foliage, and to each Eteiian gale 

 Admittance free difpenfing ; thickeft fhade 

 Guarded the reft. His tafte will beft conceive 

 The new arrangement, whofe free footfteps, us'd 195 



To foreft haunts, have pierc'd their opening dells, 

 Where frequent tufts of fweetbriar, box, or thorn, 

 Steal on the green fward, but admit fair fpace 

 For many a mofTy maze to wind between. 



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