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WRITTEN ON A CHINESE TEMPLE IN MR. SCOTT'S GARDEN AT AMWELL.

1 TO scenes where Taste and Genius dwell,
2 Unwillingly we bid farewell:
3 For these, of more than mortal birth,
4 Strangers and sojourners on earth,
5 Have, far from every vulgar road,
6 At Amwell fix'd their fair abode.

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Title (in Source Edition): WRITTEN ON A CHINESE TEMPLE IN MR. SCOTT'S GARDEN AT AMWELL.
Themes: architecture; buildings; gardens
Genres: inscription
References: DMI 32665

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Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. IV. [The second edition]. London: printed for G. Pearch, 1770, p. 179. 4v. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T116245; DMI 1137; OTA K093079.004) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [(OC) 280 o.791].)

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