 | Miscellanies (1785)
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Yet separate facts from fairy scenes like these,
Nature, we find, still keeps her first decrees;
The order due which at her birth was giv'n,
Still forms th' unchanging law of earth and heav'n,
In one fair tenor, on the circle goes,
And no obstruction no confusion knows.
When Shenstone, nay, when Shakespeare press'd the tomb,
The shrubs that saw their fate maintain'd their bloom;
Clear ran the streams to their accustom'd shore,
Nor gave one bubble less, one murmur more;
Nor did a single leaf, a simple flower,
Or fade or fall to mark their mortal hour.
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