The Works of the British Poets Volume 26; With Lives of the Authors (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 Excerpt: ...choral symphonies of praise and love, Let all the powers of Nature close the strain." CJWTO II. ARGUMENT. Of different soils, and their culture. Mr. Tull's principle and practice. Of the principles and practice of the Middlesex gardeners. Of various manures, and other methods of improving lands. Of hedging and ditching. Of planting timber trees. Of draining wet, imd flooding dry lands. Of gardening, and the gardens of Epicnrus. DescEsniso now from these superior themes, O Muse, in notes familiar, teach the swain The hidden properties of every glebe, And what the different culture each requires. The naturalist, to sand, or loam, or clay, Reduces all the varying soils, which clothe The bosom of this earth with beauty. Sand, Hot, open, loose, admits the genial ray With freedom, and with greediness imbibes The falling moisture: hence the embrio seeds, . Lodg'd in its fiery womb, push into life With early haste, and hurry'd to their prime, (Their vital juices spent) too soon decay. Correct this error of the ardent soil, With cool manure: let stiff cohesive clay Give the loose glebe consistence, and firm strength: So shall thy labouring steers, when harvest calls, Bending their patient shoulders to the yoke, Drag home in copious loads the yellow grain. Has fortune fix'd thy lot to toil in clay? Despair not, nor repine: the stubborn soil Shall yield to cultivation, and reward The hand of diligence. Here give the plough No rest. Break, pound the clouds, and with warm Relieve the sterile coldness of the ground, dungs Chill'd with obstructed water. Add to these The sharpest sand, to open and unbind The close-cohering mass; so shall new pores Admit the solar beam's enlivening heat, The nitrous particles of air receive, And yield a passage to the soaking rain. Henc...