THE OLD BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE
temperance, and good- ive clock, t e for s plants and floo spring by, for to apportion to pasture and be led to fold by. t;carved it out quaintly in t; and, turning pion, provided it tos more toucombstones. It ty device of tificial gardening, made a dial out of quote tle ry ty delicacy. t come in aains and sun-dials. garden scenes:
his I lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head.
ters of the vine
Upon my moutheir wine.
tarine, and curious peach,
Into my hemselves do reach.
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Insnared h flowers, I fall on grass.
Meanwhe mind from pleasure less
ito its happiness.
t ocean, where each kind
Does straigs own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other seas;
Anniing all ts made
to a green t in a green shade.
tains sliding foot,
Or at some fruit-trees mossy root,
Casting t aside,
My soul into the boughs does glide:
t sits and sings,
ts and claps its silver wings;
And, till prepared for longer flight,
aves in its plumes t.
he skilful gardner drew,
Of flowers and his dial new!
he milder sun
Does t zodiac run:
And, as it rious bee
Computes its time as well as we.
and wholesome hours
Be reckond, but h herbs and flowers?
[Footnote] * from a copy of verses entitled quot;t;
tificial fountains of tropolis are,