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Should taste now bid you botanize, 

 The upland wilds fail not to prize:* 

 Here Sphagnum^ lifts her humble head, 

 And DroseraX will her dewdrops shed ; 

 While Heaths, of roseate hue, will smile, 

 And thus your wandering way beguile. 

 Or should your steps refuse the waste, 

 With Edens near the scene is grac'd, 

 And cots embov/er'ci, while soaring high 

 Their smoke, slow curling, stains the sky;^ 

 Where Peace, beside the hearth of home, 

 Spurns with disdain the lordly dome. 

 Or like you length and breadth of view 

 O'er scenery rich, of varied hue, 

 Ascending still, at Holwood Park, 

 Look round, and many objects mark ; 

 'Mongst which the QUEEN of cities stands,',] 

 A cynosure to distant lands. 



* The spot called Hayes Common deserves a more dignified 

 name: it is at once a wild and an upland, not to say mountain- 

 ous district; and the numerous villas around add an interest to 

 it of no ordinary kind. 



t Sphagnum palustre, or Bog-moss, a curious and useful plaht 

 for packing other plants. See Mr. Salisbury's ^count of it in 

 the Trunsactions of the Society of Arts. 



X Drosera rotundifolia, or Sundew. 



§ " Above whose peaceful umbrage, trailing high, 

 A little smoke went up, and stain'd the cloudless sky.'' 



Bowles's Hope* 

 II iLondon. 



