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It has been observed, that the Poplar is not dainty as 

 to soil : it will grow in any but a very dry soil, but it 

 most delights to coast the rills and brooks ; 



" The poplar trembling o'er the silver flood/' 



will grow more luxuriantly than in a wood, or park, 

 where it has no water near : 



The poplar never dry/' 



says Spenser. The following is a beautiful miniature : 



"It was a shallow dell, set in a mound 

 Of sloping shrubsj that mounted by degrees, 

 The birch and poplar mixed with heavier trees ; 

 From under which, sent through a marble spout. 

 Betwixt the dark wet green a rill gushed out. 

 Whose low sweet talking seemed as if it said 

 Something eternal to that happy shade.'' 



Leigh Hunt. 



Cowper has addressed some verses to a field of Poplars 

 under which he had been accustomed to sit, which were 

 afterwards felled, much to the poefs regret. 



