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At once , array'd 95 In all the colours of the flushing year , By Nature's swift and
secret - working hand , The garden glows , and fills the liberal air With lavish
fragrance ; while the promis'd fruit Lies yet a little embryo , unperceiv'd , Within its
...
At once , array'd 95 In all the colours of the flushing year , By Nature's swift and
secret - working hand , The garden glows , and fills the liberal air With lavish
fragrance ; while the promis'd fruit Lies yet a little embryo , unperceiv'd , Within its
...
Page 9
... dry sprig , and mute - imploring eye The falling verdure . Hush'd in short
suspence , The plumy people streak their wings with oil , To throw the lucid
moisture trickling off ; And wait th ' approaching sign to strike , at once , Into the
general choir ...
... dry sprig , and mute - imploring eye The falling verdure . Hush'd in short
suspence , The plumy people streak their wings with oil , To throw the lucid
moisture trickling off ; And wait th ' approaching sign to strike , at once , Into the
general choir ...
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At once he darts along , Deep - ftruck , and runs out all the lengthenodline ; 430
Then seeks the fartheit ooze , the sheltering weed , The cavernd bank , his old
secure abode ; And Aies aloft , and flounces round the pool , Indignant of the
guile .
At once he darts along , Deep - ftruck , and runs out all the lengthenodline ; 430
Then seeks the fartheit ooze , the sheltering weed , The cavernd bank , his old
secure abode ; And Aies aloft , and flounces round the pool , Indignant of the
guile .
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But no sooner grows The soft infusion prevalent , and wide , 585 Than , all alive ,
at once their joy o'erflows In mufick unconfin'd . Up - springs the lark , Shrill voic'd
, and loud , the messenger of morn ; Ere yet the shadows fly , he mounted fings ...
But no sooner grows The soft infusion prevalent , and wide , 585 Than , all alive ,
at once their joy o'erflows In mufick unconfin'd . Up - springs the lark , Shrill voic'd
, and loud , the messenger of morn ; Ere yet the shadows fly , he mounted fings ...
Page 30
725 But now the feather'd youth their former bounds , Ardent , disdain ; and ,
weighing oft their wings , Demand the free poffefsion of the sky : This one glad
office more , and then disolves Parental love at once , now needless grown .
725 But now the feather'd youth their former bounds , Ardent , disdain ; and ,
weighing oft their wings , Demand the free poffefsion of the sky : This one glad
office more , and then disolves Parental love at once , now needless grown .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Seasons Volume 1 of The works of James Thomson in four volumes complete |
| Author | James Thomson |
| Publisher | A. Millar, 1752 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 8 Jun 2017 |
| Length | 222 pages |
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