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Show [ 148 ] II. " Here may no clamours hadh intrude, " No brawling hound or clarion rude; " Here no fell beafi of midnight prow 1, " And teach thy tortured cliffs to how 1 ! III. '' Be thine to pour thefe vales along " Some artlefs Shepherd's evening fong ; " While Nigh~'s fweet bird, from yon high fpray Bs " Refponfive, liftens to his lay. 90 IV. " And if, like me, fome love-lorn Maid "' Should fing her forrows to thy lhade, <' Oh, footh her brea:ll:, ye rocks around! '' With foftefl: fympathy of found." From ozier bowers the brooding Halcyons peep, The Swans purfuing cleave the glaffy deep, 95 [ 149 J On hovering wings the wondering Reed-larks play, And :Glent Bitterns lifien to the Iay.- Three ili.epherd-fwains beneath the beechen fhades Twine rival garlands for the tuneful maids ; I 00 On each fmooth bark the myfiic love-knot frame, Or on white fands infcribe the favour' d nmne. Green fwells the beech, the widening knots improve, So fpread the tender growths of living love ; Wave follows wave, the letter' d lines decay, So Love's foft forms uncultured melt away. From Time's remoteft dawn where China brings In proud fucceffion all her Patriot-Kings ; 0' er defert-fands, deep gulphs, and hills fublime, Extends her maffy wall from clime to clime ; I I o With bells and dragons crefts her Pagod-bowers, Her iilken palaces, and porcelain towers ; W~th long canals a thoufand nations laves; Plants all her wilds, and peoples all her waves |