i 4 THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 



Was genial Summer's day, for fecret floves 230 



Thro' all the pile folflitial warmth convey'd. 



Thefe led thro* ifles of Fragrance to the Dome, 

 Each way in circling quadrant. That bright fpace 

 Guarded the fpicy tribes from Afric's Ihore, 

 Or Ind, or Araby, Sabaean Plants 235 



Weeping with nard, and balfam. In the midft 

 A Statue flood, the work of Attic Art ; 

 Its thin light drapery, caft in fluid folds, 

 Proclaim'd its antientry 5 all fave the head, 

 Which flole (for Love is prone to gentle thefts) 240 



The features of N ERIN A ; yet that head, 

 So perfect in refemblance; all its air 

 So tenderly impaffion'd j to the trunk, 

 Which Grecian fkill had form'd, fo aptly join'd, 

 PHIDIAS himfelf might feem to have infpir'd 24" 



The chiflel, brib'd to do the am'rous fraud. 

 One graceful hand held forth a flow'ry wreath, 

 The other preft her zone ; while round the bafe 

 Dolphins, and Triton (hells* and plants marine 



Proclaim'd, 



