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Sonnet.
WRITTEN AT NORMAN COURT (MR. THISTLETHWAITE'S).
1779.
As Nature fondly viewed, with conscious pride,
This airy brow with waving forests crowned,
Th'expanse of varied green and hills that bound
The rich domain, Mine be the praise! she cried.
Not thine alone, my sister, Art replied;
I clothed in livelier green the varied ground,
And here with woods the circling vale embrowned,
There spotted with thin shade the mountain side.
Yes, Nature said, with thee that praise I share;
But view these beauties where alone I reign,
Where Art has added, and can add, no grace.
Her haughty rival with th'insulting air
Of mockery turned; but when upon the plain
She saw Selina, blushing veiled her face.
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