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is true, does not associate it with any thing very sub¬ 
lime or ennobling, for he chiefly recommends it as 
peculiarly agreeable to goats in the winter, when other 
sustenance fails; for basket-work, and for the purposes 
of engrafting: — 
« Rough arbute slips into a hazel bough 
Arc oft engrafted." 
Horace, however, gives it higher praise. He com¬ 
mends it for its shade; and Ovid for the beauty of its 
ruby fruit. It has received but little poetical notice in 
our own country; less, surely, than it deserves; but 
its not being much cultivated here till lately may 
account satisfactorily for the omission, without im¬ 
pugning the taste of such of our forefathers as were 
skilled 
“ to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.” 
We find it thus noticed in modern poetry : — 
-“ The leafy Arbute spreads 
A snow of blossoms, and on every bough 
Its vermeil fruitage glitters to the sun.” 
