The barren Mountain, and the rural Shade;

The mingled gay Profusion, Nature made,

To fit and tally, Art requires his Skill, }

From the moist Meadow; to the brown-brow'd Hill,

The silent shady Grove, or silver Rill.

To give a Grandeur to the Opening Lawn;

And pleasing Softness, to the solemn Dawn;

To join the vivid, with the vernal Bloom;

Where scarce a Sun Beam wanders thro' the Gloom.

This is the Art's Perfection well to know;