What availed the songs of  a "mighty mind, / With inward light irradiate, mirror-like / Receiv'd, and to mankind with ray reflex / The sov'reign Planter's primal work display'd?"
The English Garden: A Poem. [from Works]
Books issued separately and then collected in 1781. First book in 1772, second in 1777, third in 1779. All four printed together in <u>The English Garden: A Poem. In Four Books</u> (York: Printed by A. Ward, 1781). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW117029256&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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13 entries in ESTC (1772, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1781, 1782, 1783, 1786).<br>
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Text from <u>The Works of William Mason</u>, 4 vols. (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811), I, 201ff. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=q2hKAAAAYAAJ">Link to vol. I in Google Books</a>&gt;