I4O MEMOIRS OF 



acquired a taftc for fcenic beauty and 

 poetic imagery, by liftening to ingenious 

 obfervations upon their nature from the 

 lips of thy own lord, as I lay purring at 

 the feet of my miftrefs, 



I admired the lovely fcene, and breathed 

 my fighs for thee to the liftening moon. 

 She threw the long fliadows of the ma- 

 jeftic cathedral upon the filvered lawn, I 

 beheld the pearly meadows of Stow Valley, 

 and the lake in its bofom, which, reflect- 

 ing the lunar rays, feemed a fheet of 

 diamonds. The trees of the Dean's \Valk, 

 "which the hand of Dulnefs had been re- 

 ftrained from torturing into trim and 

 dcteftable regularity, met each other in a 

 thoufand various and beautiful forms. 

 Their liberated boughs danced on the 

 midnight gale, and the edges of their 

 leaves \vere whitened by the moonbeams. 

 I defcended to the lawn, that I might 

 throw the beauties of the valley into 



perfpeftivc 



