THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 19 



" The lake, or pace the more, with livelier charms, 330 



*' Yet no lefs rural, here will meet thy glance, 



*' Than flowers inanimate." Full loon was fcoopt 



The wat'ry bed, and foon, by margin green, 



And riling banks, inclos'd ; the higheft gave 



Site to a ruftic fabric, fhelving deep 335 



Within the thicket, and in front compos'd 



Of three unequal arches, lowly all 



The furer to expel the noontide glare, 



Yet yielding liberal inlet to the fcene ; 



Woodbine with jafmine carelefsly entwin'd 340 



Conceal'd the needful mafonry, and hung 



In free feftoons, and veiled all the cell. 



Hence did the lake, the iflands, and the rock, 



A living landfcape fpread ; the feather'd fleet, 



Led by two mantling fwans, at ev'ry creek 34.5 



Now touch'd, and now unmoor'd ; now on full fail,. 



With pennons fpread and oary feet they ply'd 



Their vagrant voyage -, and now, as if becalm'd, 



'Tween more and (hore at anchor feem'd to fleep. 



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