DULWICH — HITHER-GREEN — RUSHY-GREEN. 11 



Hence, if it please you, down the vale, 

 DuLwiCH shall tell a pleasant tale 

 Of Pictures and of groves of shade, 

 By painters and by Nature made.* 

 If, still aberrant, you will stray. 

 To Hither Green without delay; 

 Let health's brisk breezes round you blow. 

 While you command the vale below. 

 Or wander to that Rushy-Green, 

 Where diving Dabchicksf oft are seen. 

 Now pass, the Ravensbourne again. 

 And quit the haunts of busy men. 

 For scenes where dwells the woodland sprite, 

 And FOREST and canal unite ; 

 The WARBLERS here will charm your sense 

 With Nature's wildest eloquence. 

 Though rarely do such works of art, 

 Canals, the picturesque impair t, 

 Yet here both Art and Nature meet, 

 To lay it. Lady ! at your feet.t 



* The Dultcich Picture Gallery^ the munificent gift of Sir 

 Francis Bourgeois, afibrds an agreeable lounge for those who 

 have any taste for paintings. It is greatly to be regretted, 

 that a singular regulation precludes some of its usefulness ; 

 this regulation consists in compelling every one, desirous of 

 viewing it, to obtain a ticket (gratis it is true,) in London, No 

 one applying without such a ticket at Dulwich is admitted. 



t Colymbus minor y orDioAPPER; a considerable number of 

 these birds may be always seen in a pond, or on its banks, at 

 Rushy-green. 



X This Canal unites with the Thames, near Deptford. By a 

 multiplicity of locks, it reaches a considerable elevation 



