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THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

Wale inv:etdel:

J.S.Müller fe:

My humble Muse, in unambitious Strains

Paints the green Forefts & the flowry plains.

Windsor Forest

WINDSOR-FOREST.

To the Right Honourable

GEORGE Lord LANSDOWN.

HY forefts, Windfor! and thy green retreats,

THY
Tax once the Monarch's and the Mufe's feats,

once

Invite my lays. Be present, fylvan maids !
Unlock your springs, and open all your fhades.
GRANVILLE commands; your aid, O Mufes,
bring!

What Mufe for GRANVILLE can refuse to fing?
The Groves of Eden, vanish'd now fo long,
Live in defcription, and look green in fong:

Thefe,

This Poem was written at two different times: the first part of it, which relates to the country, in the year 1704, at the fame time with the Pastorals: the latter part was not added till the year 1713, in which it was published. P. VARIATIONS.

VER. 3, etc. originally thus,

Chafte Goddefs of the woods, Nymphs of the vales, and Naíads of the floods, Lead me thro' arching bow'rs, and glimm'ring glades. Unlock your fprings

IMITATIONS.

P.

VER. 6.

neget quis carmina Gallo? Virg.

Thefe, were my breaft infpir'd with equal flame,
Like them in beauty, fhould be like in fame.
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain,
Here earth and water seem to strive again;
Not Chaos-like together crufh'd and bruis'd,
But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd:
Where order in variety we fee,

And where, tho' all things differ, all

agree.

ΙΟ

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Here waving groves a chequer'd scene display,
And part admit, and part exclude the day;
As fome coy nymph her lover's warm address
Nor quite indulges, nor can quite repress.
There, interfpers'd in lawns and op'ning glades,
Thin trees arise that fhun each other's fhades.
Here in full light the ruffet plains extend:
There wrapt in clouds the blueish hills afcend.
Ev'n the wild heath displays her purple dyes,
And 'midst the defart fruitful fields arise,
That crown'd with tufted trees and fpringing corn,
Like verdant ifles the fable wafte adorn.
Let India boast her plants, nor envy we
The weeping amber or the balmy tree,

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While by our oaks the precious loads are born,

And realms commanded which thofe trees adorn.

Not

VARIATIONS.

VER. 25. Originally thus ;

Why should I fing our better funs or air,
Whofe vital draughts prevent the leach's care,
While thro' fresh fields th' enliv'ning odours breathe,
Or fpread with vernal blooms the purple heath? P.

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