Nor moral excellence, nor focial bliss,
Nor guardian law were his; nor various skill
To turn the furrow, or to guide the tool
Mechanic; nor the heaven-conducted prow
Of navigation bold, that fearless braves
The burning line or dares the wintry pole;
Mother fevere of infinite delights!
Nothing, fave rapine, indolence, and guile,
And woes on woes, a still-revolving train!
Whofe horrid circle had made human life
Than non existence worse: but, taught by thee,
Ours are the plans of policy, and peace;
To live like brothers, and conjunctive all
Embellish life. While thus laborious crowds
Ply the tough oar, PHILOSOPHY directs
The ruling helm; or like the liberal breath
Of potent Heaven, invisible, the fail

Swells out, and bears th' inferior world along,
Nor to this evanefcent fpeck of earth
Poorly confin'd, the radiant tracts on high
Are her exalted range; intent to gaze
Creation thro'; and, from that full complex
Of never-ending wonders, to conceive
Of the SOLE BEING right, who spoke the Word,
And Nature mov'd complete. With inward view,

Thence on th' ideal kingdom swift she turns
Her eye; and inftant, at her powerful glance,
Th' obedient phantoms vanish or appear;
Compound, divide, and into order shift,
Each to his rank, from plain perception up
To the fair forms of Fancy's fleeting train:
To reafon then, deducing truth from truth;
And notion quite abstract; where first begins
The world of fpirits, action all, and life
Unfetter'd, and unmix'd. But here the cloud,
So wills ETERNAL PROVIDENCE, fits deep.
Enough for us to know that this dark state,
In wayward paffions loft, and vain pursuits,
This Infancy of Being, cannot prove

The final Iffue of the works of GOD,

By boundless Love and perfect WISDOM form'd, And ever rifing with the rifing mind.

AUTUM N.

THE ARGUMENT.

The fubject propofed. Addreffed to Mr. ONSLOW. A prospect of the fields ready for harvest. Reflections in praise of induftry raised by that view. Reaping. A tale relative to it. A harvest storm. Shooting and hunting, their barbarity. Aludicrous account of fox-hunting. A view of an orchard. Wallfruit. A vineyard. A description of fogs, frequent in the latter part of Autumn: whence a digreffion, enquiring into the rife of fountains and rivers. Birds of feafon confidered, that now shift their habitation.

The prodigious number of

them that cover the northern and western ifles of SCOTLAND. Hence a view of the country. A prospect of the discoloured, fading woods. After a gentle dusky day, moon-light. Autumnal meteors. Morning: to which fucceeds a calm, pure, fun-shiny day, fuch as ufually fhuts up the feason. The har veft being gathered in, the country diffolved in joy. The whole concludes with a panegyric on a philosophical coun try-life.