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Page 19
Where scatter'd wide the lily of the vale Its balmy essence breathes , where
cowslips hang The dewy head , where purple violets lurk , With all the lowly
children of the shade : Or lie reclin'd beneath yon spreading ash , Hung o'er the
steep ...
Where scatter'd wide the lily of the vale Its balmy essence breathes , where
cowslips hang The dewy head , where purple violets lurk , With all the lowly
children of the shade : Or lie reclin'd beneath yon spreading ash , Hung o'er the
steep ...
Page 67
At last , of snowy white , the gathered flocks Are in the wattled pen innumerous
press'd , Head above head : and , rang'd in lufty rows The shepherds fit , and
whet the founding shears . The housewife waits to roll her feecy stores , With all
her ...
At last , of snowy white , the gathered flocks Are in the wattled pen innumerous
press'd , Head above head : and , rang'd in lufty rows The shepherds fit , and
whet the founding shears . The housewife waits to roll her feecy stores , With all
her ...
Page 142
Still over head The mingling tempeft weaves its gloom , and still The deluge
deepens ; till the fields around Lie sunk , and flatted , in the fordid wave . Sudden
, the ditches swell ; the meadows swim . Red , from the hills , innumerable
streams ...
Still over head The mingling tempeft weaves its gloom , and still The deluge
deepens ; till the fields around Lie sunk , and flatted , in the fordid wave . Sudden
, the ditches swell ; the meadows swim . Red , from the hills , innumerable
streams ...
Page 196
The cherish'd fields Put on their winter - robe of purest white . ' Tis brightness all ;
save where the new snow nielts Along the mazy current . Low , the woods Bow
their hoar head ; and , ere the languid fun Faint from the west emits his evening ...
The cherish'd fields Put on their winter - robe of purest white . ' Tis brightness all ;
save where the new snow nielts Along the mazy current . Low , the woods Bow
their hoar head ; and , ere the languid fun Faint from the west emits his evening ...
Page 199
... thro ' the snow , He meets the roughness of the middle watte , Far from the track
, and bleft abode of Man ; While round him night refiftless clofes fast , And every
tempeft , howling o'er his head , Renders the favage wilderness more wild .
... thro ' the snow , He meets the roughness of the middle watte , Far from the track
, and bleft abode of Man ; While round him night refiftless clofes fast , And every
tempeft , howling o'er his head , Renders the favage wilderness more wild .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Seasons |
| Author | James Thomson |
| Publisher | A. Strahan, 1799 |
| Original from | Library of Catalonia |
| Digitized | 6 Aug 2008 |
| Length | 238 pages |
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