. Spring . t; the woodlands roundApplied their choir; and winds and waters flowedIn consonance. Such were those prime of27 iZTiic Season*, But now those white unblemished man-ners, whenceThe fabling poets took their golden age,Are found no more amid these iron times.—These dregs o( life! Now the distempered mindHas lost that concord of harmonious powersWhich forms the soul of happiness ; and allIs off the poise within : the passions allHave burst their bounds: and reason half impotent, or else approving, seesThe foul disorder. Senseless and deformed,Convulsive anger storms at large
. Spring . t; the woodlands roundApplied their choir; and winds and waters flowedIn consonance. Such were those prime of27 iZTiic Season*, But now those white unblemished man-ners, whenceThe fabling poets took their golden age,Are found no more amid these iron times.—These dregs o( life! Now the distempered mindHas lost that concord of harmonious powersWhich forms the soul of happiness ; and allIs off the poise within : the passions allHave burst their bounds: and reason half impotent, or else approving, seesThe foul disorder. Senseless and deformed,Convulsive anger storms at large ; or. paleAnd silent, settles into tell envy withers at anothers hates that excellence it cannot tear. o\ feeble fancies ami unmanly, loosens every love itself is bitterness of soul,A pensive anguish pining at the heart:Or, sunk to sordid interest, feels no moreThat noble wish, that never cloved desire,Which, selfish joy disdaining, seeks alone28. spring. To bless i he dearer obje< i of its sickens with extravagance; and grief,Of life impatient, into madness swells;Or in dead silence wastes the weeping , and a thousand mixl emotions more,From ever-changing views of good and ill,Formed infinitely various, vex the mindWith endless storm. Whence, deeply rank-ling, growsThe partial thought, a listless unconcern,Cold, and averting from our neighbours good ;Then dark disgusl and hatred, winding wiles,Coward deceit, and ruffian last, extinct each social feeling, fellAnd joyless inhumanity pervadesAnd petrifies the heart. Nature disturbedIs deemed, vindictive, to have changed her When the deep-cleft disparting orb, that archedThe central waters round, impetuous rushed,With universal hurst, into the gulf,31 GTfic Seasons. Ami oer the high-piled hills of fractured earthWide dashed the waves, in undulation vast ;Till, from the centre to the streaming clouds,A shoreless ocean tumbled round th
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