INTRODUCTORY PIECES. 
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With self-taught rites, and under various 
names, 
Female and male, Pomona, Pales, Pan, 
And Flora, and Vertumnus; peopling earth 
With tutelary goddesses and gods. 
That were not; and commending as they 
would 
To each some province,garden, field, orgrove. 
But all are under one. One spirit—His, 
W ho wore the platted thorns with bleeding 
brows, 
Rules universal nature. Not a flow'r 
But shows some touch , infreckle, streak, or stain. 
Of his unrivall’d pencil. He inspires 
Their balmy odours, and imparts their hues, 
And bathes their eyes with nectar, and in¬ 
cludes. 
In grains as countless as the sea-side sands, 
T he forms, with which he sprinkles all the earth. 
Happy who walks with him ! whom what he 
finds 
Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flow’r. 
Of what he views of beautiful or grand 
In nature, from the broad majestic oak 
To the green blade, that twinkles in the sun, 
Prompts with remembrance of a present God. 
His presence, who made all so fair, perceiv’d, 
Makes all still fairer. 
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