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Obferving when thofe tender Sprouts appear.
Which crowd with fragrant Sweets the youthful Year,
Your lovely Scenes of Nlarlefield abound
With as much Choife as is in Britain found :
Here faireit Plants from Nature’s Bofom dart
From Soil prolifick, ferv’d with curious Art:
Here oft the heedful Gazer is beguil’d,
And wanders through an artificial Wild,
While native flowry Green, and chriflal Strands,
Appear the Labours of ingenious Hands.
Mod happy he who can thofe fweets enjoy,
With Tafte refin’d, which does not eafy cloy.
Not fo Plebeian Souls, whom /porting Fate
Thruils into Life upon a large Edate,
While Spleen their weak Imagination fowrs,
They’re at a Lofs how to imploy their Hours :
The fweeted Plants which faired Gardens (how,
Are lod to them, for them unheeded grow.
Such purblind Eyes ne'er view the fon’rous Page,
Where (hines the Raptures of poetick Rage,
Nor through the Microfcope can take Delight,
T’ obferve the Tusks and Bridles of a Mite ;
Nor by the lengthen'd Tube learn to defcry
Thefe fhining Worlds which roll around the Sky.
Bid fuch read Hid’ry to improve their Skill,
Polite Excufei Their Memories are ill.
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