GARDENS, WREATHS, & c . 
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Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and 
flocks 
Grazing the tender herb, were interposed. 
Or palmy hillock j or the flowery lap 
Of some irriguous valley spread her store. 
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose : 
Another side, umbrageous grots and caves 
Of cool recess, o’er which the mantling vine. 
Lays forth her purple grapes and gently creeps 
Luxuriant; meanwhile murmuring waters fall 
Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake, 
1 hat to the fringed bank with myrtle crown’d. 
Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams. 
1 he birds their quire apply; airs, vernal airs. 
Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune 
The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, 
Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, 
Led on the eternal Spring. 
THE ELEGANT KNOLL. 
COWPER. 
To deck the shapely knoll, 
That softly swell’d and gaily dress’d appears 
A flow’ry island, from the dark green lawn 
Emerging, must be deem’d a labour due 
To no mean hand, and asks the touch of taste, 
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