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The ARGUMENT.

The Subject propos'd. Invocation. Addrefs to Mr. DoDINGTON. An introductory Reflection on the Motion of the Heavenly Bodies; whence the Succeffion of the Seafons. As the Face of Nature in this Seafon is almost uniform, the Progress of the Poem is a Defcription of a Summer's Day. The Dawn. Sun-rifing. Hymn to the Sun. Forenoon. Summer Infects defcrib'd. Hay-making. Sheep hearing. Noon-day. Noon-day. A woodland Retreat. Groupe of Herds and Flecks. A folemn Grove. Ho it affects a contemplative Mind. A Cataract, and rude Scene. View of Summer in the torrid Zone. Storm of Thunder and Lightning. A Tale. The Storm over, a ferene Afternoon. Bathing. Hour of walking. Tranfation to the Profpect of a rich well-cultivated Country; which introduces a Panegyric on GREAT BRITAIN. Sun-fet. Evening. Night. Summer Meteors. A Comet. The whole concluding with the Praife of Philofopby.

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ROM brightening Fields of Ether fair difclos'd,
Child of the Sun, refulgent SUMMER Comes,
In pride of Youth, and felt thro' Nature's Depth:
He comes attended by the fultry Hours,,
And ever-fanning Breezes, on his way;

While, from his ardent Look, the turning SPRING
Averts her blufhful face; and Earth, and Skies,

All-fing, to his hot Dominion leaves.

HENCE, let me hafte into the mid-wood Shade, Where fcarce a Sun-beam wanders thro' the Gloom; 10 And on the dark-green Grafs, beside the Brink Of haunted Stream, that by the Roots of Oak Rolls o'er the rocky Channel, lie at large, And fing the Glories of the circling Year,

COME, Infpiration! from thy Hermit-Seat, By Mortal feldom found: may Fancy dare, From thy fix'd serious Eye, and raptur'd Glance

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