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WINDSOR-FOREST.

To the RIGHT HONOURABLE

GEORGE Lord LANSDOWN.

Non injuffa cano: Te noftræ, Vare, myricæ,
Te Nemus omne canet; nec Phoebo gratior ulla eft,
Quam fibi
quæ Vari præfcripfit pagina nomen.

VIRG.

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WINDSOR-FOREST.

To the RIGHT HONOURABLE

GEORGE Lord LANSDOWN.

HY foreft, Windfor! and thy green retreats,

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At once the Monarch's and the Mufe's feats, Invite my lays. Be prefent, fylvan maids! Unlock your springs, and open all your fhades. GRANVILLE Commands; your aid, O Muses, bring!

What Mufe for GRANVILLE can refuse to fing? 6

VARIATIONS.

VER. 3, etc. originally thus,

Chafte Goddess of the woods

Nymphs of the vales, and Naïads of the floods,

Lead me thro' arching bow'rs, and glimm'ring glades.
Unlock your fprings- P.

NOTES.

part

This Poem was written at two different times: the first of it, which relates to the country, in the year 1704, at the fame time with the Pastorals; the latter part was not added till the year 1713, in which it was published. P.

IMITATIONS.

VER, 6.

neget quis carmina Gallo? Virg.

The Groves of Eden, vanish'd now fo long, Live in description, and look green in fong: These, were my breast inspir'd with equal flame, Like them in beauty, should be like in fame. 10 Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again; Not Chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd: Where order in variety we fee,

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And where, tho' all things differ, all agree.
Here waving groves a chequer'd scene display,
And part admit, and part exclude the day;
As fome coy nymph her lover's warm address
Nor quite indulges, nor can quite repress.
There, interfpers'd in lawns and op'ning glades,
Thin trees arise that shun each other's fhades.
Here in full light the ruffet plains extend:
There wrapt in clouds the blueifh hills afcend.
Ev'n the wild heath difplays her purple dyes, 25
And 'midft the defert fruitful fields arife,

VARIATIONS.

VER. 25. Originally thus;

Why fhould I fing our better funs or air,
Whofe vital draughts prevent the leach's care,
While thro' fresh fields th' enliv'ning odours breathe,
Or spread with vernal blooms the purple heath? P.

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