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LONDON, PUBLISHED JUNF 1.1810.BY JOHN SHARPE, PICCADILLY.

And sorted hues (each giving each relief,

And by contrasted beauty shining more)

Is needful. Strength may wield the pond'rous spade,

May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,

And most attractive, is the fair result

Of thought, the creature of a polish'd mind.

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Without it all is Gothic as the scene,

To which th' insipid citizen resorts

Near yonder heath; where Industry mispent,
But proud of his uncouth ill-chosen task,

Has made a Heav'n on Earth; with suns and moons Of close-ramm'd stones has charg'd th' encumber'd soil,

And fairly laid the zodiac in the dust.

He therefore, who would see his flow'rs dispos'd Sightly and in just order, ere he gives

The beds the trusted treasure of their seeds, 650

Forecasts the future whole; that when the scene

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