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" They pleafe, when, by PANINI'S pencil drawn, 



" Or darkly grav'd by PIRANESI'S hand, 405 



" And fitly might fome Tufcan garden grace ; 



" But Time's rude mace has here all Roman piles 



" Levell'd fo low, that who, on Britim ground 



." Attempts the tafk, builds but a fplendid lye 



" Which mocks hiftoric credence. Hence the caufe 410 



" Why Saxon piles or Norman here prevail : 



" Form they a rude, 'tis yet an Englifh whole." 



<f And much I praife thy choice," the ftranger cry'd ; 

 *' Such chafle felection mames the common mode, 

 *' Which, mingling ftrudures of far diftant times, 41 



*' Far diftant regions, here, perchance, eredls 

 " A fane to Freedom, where her BRUTUS ilands 

 * ( In aft to ftrike the tyrant ; there a Tent, 

 " With crefcent crown'd, with fcymitars adorn'd, 

 " Meet for fome BAJAZET; northward we turn, 420 



*' And lo ! a pigmy Pyramid pretends 

 " We tread the realms of PHARAOH; quickly thence 

 " Our fcuthern ftep prefents us heaps of flone 



" Rang'd ia a DRUID circle. Thus from aga 



" To 



