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my As rising from the vegetable world My theme ascends , with equal wing
ascend , My panting Muse ; and hark , how loud the woods Invite you forth in all
your gayest trim . Lend me your song , ye nightingales ! Oh pour The mazy -
running ...
my As rising from the vegetable world My theme ascends , with equal wing
ascend , My panting Muse ; and hark , how loud the woods Invite you forth in all
your gayest trim . Lend me your song , ye nightingales ! Oh pour The mazy -
running ...
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With stealthy wing , Should some rude foot their woody haunts molest , Amid a
neighbouring bush they silent drop , And whirring thence , as if alarm'd , deceive
Th ' unfeeling school - boy . Hence , around the head Of wandering swain , the ...
With stealthy wing , Should some rude foot their woody haunts molest , Amid a
neighbouring bush they silent drop , And whirring thence , as if alarm'd , deceive
Th ' unfeeling school - boy . Hence , around the head Of wandering swain , the ...
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But now the feather'd youth their former bounds , Ardent , disdain ; and , weighing
oft their wings , Demand the free ... Visit the spacious heavens , and look abroad
On Nature's common , far as they can see , Or wing , their range and pasture .
But now the feather'd youth their former bounds , Ardent , disdain ; and , weighing
oft their wings , Demand the free ... Visit the spacious heavens , and look abroad
On Nature's common , far as they can see , Or wing , their range and pasture .
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Oft , inadvertent , from the milky stream They meet their fate ; or , weltering in the
bowl , With powerless wings around them ... grimly pleas'd : the fluttering wing ,
And Ihriller found declare extreme distress , And ask the helping hospitable hand
.
Oft , inadvertent , from the milky stream They meet their fate ; or , weltering in the
bowl , With powerless wings around them ... grimly pleas'd : the fluttering wing ,
And Ihriller found declare extreme distress , And ask the helping hospitable hand
.
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Caught in the meshy snare , in vain they beat Their idle wings , intangled more
and more : Nor on the surges of the ... Immediate , brings them from the towering
wing , Dead to the ground ; or drives them wide - disperz'd , Wounded , and ...
Caught in the meshy snare , in vain they beat Their idle wings , intangled more
and more : Nor on the surges of the ... Immediate , brings them from the towering
wing , Dead to the ground ; or drives them wide - disperz'd , Wounded , and ...
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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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