The seasons . Angels dwelt, and God himself, with man! Oh, Nature ! all sufficient! over all!Enrich me with the knowledge of thy works!Snatch me to Heaven; thy rolling wonders thereWorld beyond world, in infinite scatterd oer the blue immense, AUTUMN. 163 Show me; their motions, periods, and their laws. Give me to scan; through the disclosing deep Light my blind way: the mineral strata there; Thrust, blooming, thence the vegetable world ; Oer that the rising system, more complex, Of animals; and higher still, the mind, The varied scene of quick-compounded thought, And w
The seasons . Angels dwelt, and God himself, with man! Oh, Nature ! all sufficient! over all!Enrich me with the knowledge of thy works!Snatch me to Heaven; thy rolling wonders thereWorld beyond world, in infinite scatterd oer the blue immense, AUTUMN. 163 Show me; their motions, periods, and their laws. Give me to scan; through the disclosing deep Light my blind way: the mineral strata there; Thrust, blooming, thence the vegetable world ; Oer that the rising system, more complex, Of animals; and higher still, the mind, The varied scene of quick-compounded thought, And where the mixing passions endless shift; These ever open to my ravishd eye; A search, the fUght of time can neer exhaust! But if to that unequal; if the blood. In sluggish streams about my heart, forbid That best ambition; under closing shades. Inglorious, lay me by the lowly brook, And whisper to my dreams. From Thee begin. Dwell all on Thee, with Thee conclude my song; And let me never, never stray from Thee!. .^«^^>^^—^ fitfmlttr< til On blithesome frolics bent, the youthful every work of man is laid at oer the river crowd, in various sportAnd revelry dissolvd. Page 191. WINTEl^ The subject proposed. Address to the Earl of approach of Winter. According to the natural courseof the season, varioas storms described. Rain. Wind. driving of the snows : a man perishing among them ;whence reflections on the wants and miseries of human wolves descending from the Alps and Appennines. Awinter-evening described ; as spent by philosophers ; by thecountry people; in the cit^i. Frost. A view of Winterwithin the polar circle. A thaw. The whole oonda^og xAtiimoral reflections on a future state. See, Winter comes, to rule the varied year,Sullen and sad, with all his rising train;Vapours, and Clouds, and Storms. Be these my theme,These! that exalt the soul to solemn heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred
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