WHI And dew-drops catch the lucid raý; Amid the sprightly scenes of morn, VOL. V. 164953 II. Ye II. Ye rural Thanes that o'er the moffy down III. See from the neighbouring hill, forlorn He finds his labour'd crops a prey; And with no random curfes loads the deed. IV. Nor yet, ye Swains, conclude 'That Nature fmiles for you alone; Your bounded fouls, and your conceptions crude, The proud, the selfish boast disown: Yours be the produce of the foil; Of clinging infants, ask fupport in vain ! V. But tho' the various harvest gild your plains, Does the mere landfchape feaft your eye? Or the warm hope of diftant gains Far other caufe of glee fupply? 4 Is Is not the red-ftreak's future juice Athirst ye praise the limpid stream, 'tis true : It mimick no unpleafing fong, The limpid fountain murmurs not for you. Unpleas'd ye fee the thickets bloom, The dappled mead without a smile. : For well she knows, your froward sense accuse Nor yet ye learn'd, not yet ye courtly train, If haply from your haunts ye ftray Who furnishes the scene, and forins us to enjoy. VIII. Then higher bring the fair ingenuous mind, Lo! not an hedge-row hawthorn blows, Or purple heath is ting'd in vain : The mountain fwells, the dale fubfides; Ev'n thriftless furze detains their wandering fight, And the rough barren rock grows pregnant with delight. IX. With what fufpicious fearful care The fordid wretch fecures his claim, If haply fome luxurious heir Should alienate the fields that wear his name! What fcruples left some future birth Should litigate a span of earth! Bonds, contracts, feoffments, names unmeet for profe, The towering Mufe endures not to disclose; Alas! her unrevers'd decree, More comprehenfive and more free, Her lavish charter, Tafte, appropriates all we fee. X. Let gondolas their painted flags unfold, And be the folemn day enroll'd, When, |