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The ARGUMENT.

The Subject propofed. Infcribed to the Countess of HARTThe Seafon is defcribed as it affects the va

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rious Parts of Nature, afcending from the Lower to the Higher; and mixed with Digreffions arifing from the Subject. Its Influence on inanimate Matter, on Vegetables, on brute Animals, and laft on Man; concluding with a Diffuafive from the wild and irregular Paffion of Love, opposed to That of a pure and happy Kind.

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OME, gentle SPRING, Ethereal Mildness, come,
And from the Bofom of yon dropping Cloud,

While Mufic wakes around, veil'd in a Shower Of fhadowing Rofes, on our Plains defcend.

OHARTFORD, fitted, or to fhine in Courts
With unaffected Grace, or walk the Plain
With Innocence and Meditation join'd
In foft Affemblage, liften to my Song,
Which thy own Seafon paints; when Nature all
Is blooming, and benevolent, like thee.

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AND fee where furly WINTER paffes off, Far to the North, and calls his ruffian Blasts : His Blafts obey, and quit the howling Hill, The shatter'd Forest, and the ravag'd Vale; While fofter Gales fucceed, at whose kind Touch, 15 Diffolving Snows in livid Torrents loft,

The Mountains lift their green Heads to the Sky.