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GARDENS, WREATHS, & c . 
Here also grateful mixture of well-match’d 
And sorted hues (each giving each relief. 
And by contrasted beauty shining more) 
Is needful. Strength may wield the pond’rous 
spade, 
May turn the clod, and wheel the compost 
home ; 
But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, 
And most attractive, is the fair result 
Of thought, the creature of a polish’d mind. 
Without it all is Gothic as the scene, 
To which th’ insipid citizen resorts 
Near yonder heath ; where Industry mispent. 
But proud of his uncouth ill-chosen task. 
Had made a Heav’non Earth ; with suns and 
moons 
Of close-ramm’d stones has charg’d th’ en¬ 
cumber’d soil, 
And fairly laid the zodiac in the dust. 
He therefore, who would see his flow’rs 
dispos’d 
Sightly and in just order ere he gives 
The beds the trusted treasure of their seeds, 
Forecasts the future whole ; that when the 
scene 
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Shall break into its pre-conceiv’d display. 
Each for itself, and all as with one voice 
Conspiring, may attest his bright design. 
