Unless to please our nice corrupted sense,

Art be call’d in, and join’d with vast expence;

Then rivers wander thro’ the vale no more,

But boil in pipes, or spout thro’ figur’d ore;

The neighb’ring brooks their empty channels mourn,

That now enrich some artificial urn.

Thus ever suit your numbers to your theme,

And tune their cadence to the falling stream;

Or shou’d the falling stream incline to love,

Let the words slide, and like its murmers move: