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scene, and one which carried back the imagination to those 

 fabled regions, 



" Where loaded trees their various fruits produce, 

 And clustering grapes afford a grateful juice, 

 Where rains and kindly dews refresh the field, 

 And rising springs eternal verdure yield. 

 Nor want nor famine the glad natives know, 

 Nor sink by sickness to the shades below." 



