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5 The prickly juniper, and the green leaf Which feeds the pinning worm; while glowing bright Beneath the various foliage, wildly preads The arbutus, and rears his carlet fruit Luxuriant, mantling o'er the craggy teeps; And thy own native laurel crowns the cene. Hail to thy avage forets, awful, deep: Thy tangled thickets, and thy crowded woods, The haunt of herds untam'd; which ullen bound From rock to rock with fierce unocial air, And wilder gaze, as concious of the power That loves to reign amid the lonely cenes Of unbroke nature: precipices huge, And tumbling torrents; trackles dearts, plains Fenc'd in with guardian rocks, whoe quarries teem With hining teel, that to the cultur'd fields And unny hills which wave with bearded grain Defends their homely produce. , The