From woodland scenes, in Stamford's flow'ry vale, With Learning, Peace, and Virtue, fond to dwell, And ring his wild Harp to the passing gale, While DRYDEN'S spirit hover'd o'er the shell, Invention led her musing Son among Sweet LAURA'S Delphic shades, that crown'd his mystic song.
*Stamford's flow'ry vale. — Rev. Mr. Butt, Rector of Stamford in Worcestershire. His Verses on the Pythagorean System had the Wreath. — See the fourth volume of Poetical Amusements.
