INTRODUCTORY PIECES. 
7 
Say what’s the rest but empty boast. 
The pedant’s idle claim, 
Who, having all the substance lost 
Attempts to grasp a name ? 
ADVANTAGE OF A FLOWER 
GARDEN. 
COWPER. 
The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; 
The low’ring eye, the petulance, the frown 
And sullen sadness, that o’ershade, distort. 
And mar the face of Beauty, when no cause 
For such immeasurable woe appears, 
These Flora banishes, and gives the fair 
Sweet smiles, and bloom less transient than 
her own. 
FOLLY OF NEGLECTING THE 
WORKS OF NATURE. 
COWPER. 
Strange, there should be found. 
Who, self-imprisoned in their great saloons, 
Renounce the colours of the open field, 
For the unscented fictions of the loom: 
