Author of the Flora Londinensis. VOL. VI.
| ———————"nor thou disdain | | To check the lawless riot of the trees, | | To plant the grove, or turn the barren mould | | Oh happy he, whom, when his years decline, | | (His fortune and his fame by worthy means | | Attain'd, and equal to his mod'rate mind; | | His life approv'd by all the wise and good, | | Even envy'd by the vain) the peaceful groves | | Of Epicurus, from this stormy world | | Hereine in rest; of all ungrateful cares | | Absolv'd, and sacred from the selfish crowd. | | Happiest of men I if the same soil invites | | A chosen few, companions of his youth, | | Once fellow-rakes perhaps now rural friends; | | With whom in easy commerce to pursue | | Nature's free charms, and vie for Sylvan fame | | A fair ambition; void of strife, or guile, | | Or jealousy, or pain to be outdone. | | Who plans th'enchanted garden, who directs | | The visto best, and best conducts the stream; | | Whose groves the fastest thicken, and ascend; | | Whom first the welcome spring salutes; who shews | | The earliest bloom, the sweetest proudest charms | | Of Flora; who best gives Pomona's juice | | To match the sprightly genius of Champain." | | ARMSTRONG. |
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