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Approving, greatly recompens'd. But he,
Alas! has number'd with th' illuftrious dead,
And orphan merit has no guardian now!

Next Shipbourne, tho' her precincts are confin'd
To narrow limits, yet can fhew a train
Of village beauties, paftorally sweet,
And rurally magnificent. Here* Fairlawn
Opes her delightful profpects: Dear Fairlawn
There, where at once at variance and agreed,
Nature and art hold dalliance. There where rills
Kiss the green drooping herbage, there where trees,
The tall trees tremble at th' approach of heav'n,
And bow their falutation to the fun,

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Who fofters all their foliage---These are thine,

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Yes, little Shipbourne, boaft that these are thine--

And if---But oh !--- and if 'tis no difgrace,

The birth of him who now records thy praife.

Nor fhalt thou, Mereworth, remain unfung, Where noble Westmoreland, his country's friend, Bids British greatnefs love the filent shade,

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Where piles fuperb, in claffic elegance,

Arife, and all is Roman, like his heart.

Nor Chatham, tho' it is not thine to fhew The lofty foreft or the verdant lawns,

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*The feat of Lord Vane.

Yet

Yet niggard filence shall not grutch thee praise.
The lofty forefts by thy fons prepar'd
Becomes the warlike navy, braves the floods,
And gives Sylvanus empire in the main.
Oh that Britannia, in the day of war,
Wou'd not alone Minerva's valour trust,
But also hear her wifdom! Then her oaks

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Shap'd by her own mechanics, wou'd alone

Her ifland fortify, and fix her fame;

Nor wou'd fhe weep, like Rachael, for her fons,
Whofe glorious blood, in mad profusion,

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In foreign lands is fhed---and shed in vain.

Now on fair Dover's topmoft cliff I'll stand,

And look with fcorn and triumph on proud France.
Of yore an ifthmus jutting from this coaft,

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Join'd the Britannic to the Gallic shore ;

But Neptune on a day, with fury fir'd,

Rear'd his tremendous trident, fmote the earth,
And broke th' unnatural union at a blow.---

"'Twixt you and you, my fervants and my fons,
"Be there (he cried) eternal discord---France
"Shall bow the neck to Cantium's peerlefs offspring,
"And as the oak reigns lordly o'er the shrub,
"So fhall the hop have homage from the vine.”

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Scilicet impatiens angufto hoc orbe teneri,
Fontinelle, tuos audax imitarier aufus

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