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• Call’d water-lemon; grateful to the taste:
• Nor should she not pursue the mountain-streams, [545]
• But pleas’d decoy them from their shady haunts,
• In rills, to visit every tree and herb;
• Or fall o’er fern-clad cliffs, with foaming rage;
• Or in huge basons¹ float, a fair expanse;
• Or, bound in chains of artificial force, [550]
• Arise thro’ sculptured stone, or breathing brass.——
• But I’m in haste to furl my wind-worn sails,

• And anchor my tir’d vessel on the shore.

• IT much imports to build thy Negroe-huts,
• Or on the sounding margin of the main, [555]
• Or on some dry hill’s gently-sloping sides,
• In streets, at distance due.——When near the beach,
• Let frequent coco cast its wavy shade;
• 'Tis Neptune’s tree; and, nourish’d by the spray,
• Soon round the bending stem’s aerial height, [560]
• Clusters of mighty nuts, with milk and fruit
• Delicious fraught, hang clattering in the sky.
• There let the bay-grape,² too, its crooked limbs

VER. 563. bay-grape] Or sea side grape, as it is more commonly called. This is a large, crooked, and shady tree, (the leaves being broad, thick, and almost

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