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harmonious fcience. The fifter 'Avenas 

 fmg a lovely paftoral ballad, whofe Ihorter 

 meafure again, as twice before, in the courfe 

 of this poem, agreeably relieves the ear. 



Cannabis, Chinefe Hemp, is introduced 

 by this fine appropriate landfcape, where 

 China, 



O'er defert fands, deep gulphs, and hills sublime 

 Extends her mafly wall from clime to clime; 

 With bells and dragons crefts her Pagod -bowers, 

 Her fil ken palaces, and porcelain towers 3 

 With long canals a thoufand nations laves, 

 Plants all her wilds, and peoples all her waves j 

 Slow treads fair Cannabis the breezy ftrand, 

 The diftaff ftreams diflievell'd in her hand. 



The female form is always attractive 

 from the poetic pencil of Darwin. Even 

 the homely diftaff becomes elegant, as in 

 the hand of a fair Nymph, it's flax is buoy- 

 ant on the gales of morning. Cannabis 

 proceeds in her fpinning, and the Graces 

 hover around her wheel; yet to her is 

 " ftern Clotho" compared, who weaves 



the 



