Through those fair scenes, where yet she owes Superior charms to BROCKMAN's art, Where, crowned with elegant repose, Through those fair scenes we'll wander wild, And on yon pastured mountains rest; Come, brother dear! come, Nature's child! With all her simple virtues blest. The sun far-seen on distant towers, And ruins pale of princely bowers On BEACHBOROUGH's airy heights shall please. Hertfordshire. Nature has formed a Bee apparently feeding on the breast of the flower with so much exactness, that it is impossible, at a very small distance, to distinguish the imposition. For this purpose she has observed an economy different from what is found in most other flowers, and has laid the petals horizon Nor lifeless there the lonely scene; The little labourer of the hive, From flower to flower, from green to green, Murmurs, and makes the wild alive. See, on that flowrets velvet breast, His thin-wrought plume, his downy breast, Regardless, whilst we wander near, And rest in sleep his weary eyes? tally. The genus of the Orchis, or Satyrion, she seems professedly to have made use of for her paintings, and on the different species has drawn the perfect forms of different insects, such as Bees, Flies, Butterflies, &c. Perhaps his fragrant load may bind His limbs; we'll set the captive freeI sought the living Bee to find, And found the picture of a Bee. Attentive to our trifling selves, From thence we plan the rule of all; Thus NATURE with the fabled elves We rank, and these her Sports we call. Be far, my friends, from you, from me, In idle Fancy's trifling vein. Remember still, 'tis NATURE's plan And know, for this, she first in man be As conscious that affection grows, Pleased with the pencil's mimic power*; That power with leading hand she shows, And paints a Bee upon a flower. Mark, how that rooted mandrake wears See where, in yonder orient stone, The well-known Fables of the Painter and the Statuary that fell in love with objects of their own creation, plainly arose from the idea of that attachment, which follows the imitation of agreeable objects, to the objects imitated. |