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in all the glow of poetic colouring. At- 

 tentive to diverfify them by the varieties 

 of landfcape, we generally find this Pqet 

 producing contrafted fcenery by the intro- 

 duction of flowers or plants which arc 

 indigenous to climates ftrikingly the reverfe 

 of each other. Much of that happy fldll 

 has been difplayed in the Economy of 

 Vegetation, and inftances may be feleded 

 from this it's brilliant precurfor, After 

 feveral plants and flowers have pafled be- 

 fore us in the femblance of beautiful wo- 

 men, with their trains of adoring lovers, 

 we find the folio wing fketches of contrafted 

 landfcape attached to the feiftory of the 

 focial heath-plant, Anthoxa, or vernal grafs, 

 and the lonely Ofmunda, which grows on 

 moift rocks and in their caverns. 



Two gentle fhepherds, and their lifter wives, 

 With thee, Anthoxa, lead ambrofial lives $ 

 Where the wide heath it's purple bed extends, 

 And fcatter'd furze it's golden luftre blends, 



Clos'd 



