Written at a Ferme Ornee near Birmingham; August 7th, 1749. Henrietta St. John Knight, Lady Luxborough Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T131163 K104099.004 Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. IV. London printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley 1763 [1st ed. 1758] pp. 310-311. 6v.: music; 8⁰.

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Written at a Ferme Ornee near Birmingham ; August 7th , 1749. By the Same . 'TIS Nature here bids pleasing scenes arise , And wisely gives them Cynthio , to revise : To veil each blemish ; brighten every grace ; Yet still preserve the lovely Parent's face . How well the bard obeys , each valley tells ; These lucid streams , gay meads , and lonely cells ; Where modest art in silence lurks conceal'd : While Nature shines , so gracefully reveal'd , That she triumphant claims the total plan ; And , with fresh pride , adopts the work of man .