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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T63103 Chandler, Mary, 1687-1745. The Description Of Bath. A Poem. Humbly Inscribed To Her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia. By Mrs. Mary Chandler. The Third Edition. To which are added, Several Poems by the same Author [poems only]. London Printed for James Leake, Bookseller in Bath 1736 pp. 28-31. 77p.

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To Mrs. Boteler . A Description of her Garden . How charming is this little Spot Dispos'd with Art and Taste . A thousand Beauties intermix'd , Prepare the Eyes a Feast . The lovely Limes in ample Rows , With Woodbines climbing round , A shining Gravel Walk inclose . Where not a Weed is found . The Crocus , Primrose , Daffodil , And Cowslip sweet , I sing ; And fragrant purple Violet , All Harbingers of Spring . The musky lovely blushing Pink , Jonquil with rich Perfume ; Tulips that vie with Iris ' Bow , And Balsoms annual Bloom . Th'immortal Pea , fair ' Emone , And beamy Marigold , And Polyanthus ( lovely Tribe ! ) Their various Blooms unfold . The Gard'ner's Pride Ranunculus , Bell-flow'r ethereal blue , The Rose Campion , and golden Lupe , And Wonder of Peru . The Amarynths , as Poets sing , That Juno deign'd to wear , That in Hesperian Gardens spring , Bloom fair and fragrant here . The Lily fair as new fall'n Snow ; All these the Borders grace . And Myrtles , Roses , Jessamins , With Fragrance fill the Place . A Groop of dwarfish Apple Trees Appear , a fairy Scene , Loaden with Fruit , such Paris gave To Venus , Beauty's Queen . Stately the rising Mount appears , With tow'ring Elms o'erspread ; Whose gently waving Branches form , At Noon , a cooling Shade . The Laurel Plant the Victors crown , And Bays by Poets worn ; The party-colour'd Philaroy , And May perfuming Thorn . These line the Walks , and make the Bounds All verdant young , and fair : All speak the Owner's Judgment good , And praise the Gard'ner's Care . Faint Emblem of a fairer Mind , That over all presides : For ev'ry Virtue's planted there , And ev'ry Action guides .