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various growth did he adorn the borders of 

 the fountain, the brook, and the lakes, 

 but with various claffies of plants, uniting 

 the Linnean fcience with the charm of 

 landfcape. 



For the Naiad of the fountain, he wrote 

 the following infcription. 



SPEECH OF A WATER NYMPH. 



Jf the meek flower of .bafhful dye, 

 Attract not thy incurious eye j 

 Jf the foft, murmuring rill to reft 

 Encharm not thy tumultuous bread, 

 Go, where Ambition lures the vain, 

 Or Avarice barters peace for gain ! 



V 



Dr. Darwin reftrained his friend Mifs 

 Seward's fteps to this her always favourite 

 fcene till it had aflumed its new beau- 

 ties from cultivation. He purpofed ac- 

 companying her on her firft vifit to his 

 botanic garden, but a medical fummons 

 into the country deprived her of that 



pleasure. 



