MEMOIRS OF 



the vegetable world. In the exordium of 

 this charge we meet a couplet rivalling in 

 pifturefque beauty the lines in Collins' 

 charming, though rhymelefs Ode to Even- 

 ing, when he tells the grey-ftoled per- 

 fonage, that, from his hut on the mountain 

 fide, he loves to contemplate, in a fliowery 

 twilight, 



The hamlets brown, and dim-difcover'd fpires, 

 And hear their limple bells, and mark o'er all 



Her dewy fingers draw 



The gradual, dufky veil. 



The Botanic Queen fays to her aqueous 

 mmiftry in thefe rival lines, 



Your lucid hands condenfe, with fingers chill, 

 The blue mift hovering round the gelid hill. 



This charge has one harm line ; thus, 



And as below fhe braids her hyaline hair. 



The employment gentle, the attitude 

 graceful, that harfhnefs of meafure which 



is 



