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When trees from a steep and broken bank 

 form an arch over the water, and dip their 

 foliage in the stream ; when the clear mir- 

 ror beneath reflects their branching roots, 

 the coves under them, the jutting rocks 

 upon which they have fastened, and seem 

 to hold in their embrace, and the bright 

 and mellow tints of large moss-crowned 

 stones that have their foundation below 

 the water, and rising out of it support and 

 form a part of the bank— would the poet 

 sigh for grass only, and wish to destroy, 

 level, and cover with turf these and a 

 thousand other beautiful and picturesque 

 circumstances ? , Would he object to the 

 river, because it Was not every where brim- 

 ful to the top of all its banks, and did not 

 every where kiss the grass ? And are we to 

 conclude, that when poets mention one 

 beauty, they mean to exclude all the rest? 



It may possibly be said, that there are 

 natural rivers, the banks of which like 

 those of Mr. Brown's, keep for a long time 

 together the same level above the water : 



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