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High to their fount , this day , amid the liills , And woodlands warbling round ,
trace up the brooks ; The next , pursue their rocky - channel'd maze , Down to the
river , in whose ample wave 400 Their little naiads love to sport at large . Just in
the ...
High to their fount , this day , amid the liills , And woodlands warbling round ,
trace up the brooks ; The next , pursue their rocky - channel'd maze , Down to the
river , in whose ample wave 400 Their little naiads love to sport at large . Just in
the ...
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... close , where scarce a speck of day Falls on the lengthen'd gloom , protracted
sweeps ; Now meets the bending kky : the river now 520 Dimpling 530 Dimpling
along , the breezy - ruffled lake , 22 SPRING .
... close , where scarce a speck of day Falls on the lengthen'd gloom , protracted
sweeps ; Now meets the bending kky : the river now 520 Dimpling 530 Dimpling
along , the breezy - ruffled lake , 22 SPRING .
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Bears down th ' oppofing stream : quenchless his thirst ; He takes the river at
redoubled draughts ; 511 And with wide nostrils , snorting , kims the wave . STILL
let me pierce into the midnight depth Of yonder grove , of wildest largest growth ...
Bears down th ' oppofing stream : quenchless his thirst ; He takes the river at
redoubled draughts ; 511 And with wide nostrils , snorting , kims the wave . STILL
let me pierce into the midnight depth Of yonder grove , of wildest largest growth ...
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Along these lonely regions , where retired , 690 From little scenes of art , great
Nature dwells In awful solitude , and nought is seen But the wild herds that own
no master's fall , Prodigious rivers roll their fatning feas : On whose luxuriant ...
Along these lonely regions , where retired , 690 From little scenes of art , great
Nature dwells In awful solitude , and nought is seen But the wild herds that own
no master's fall , Prodigious rivers roll their fatning feas : On whose luxuriant ...
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800 Ambitious , thence the manly river breaks ; And gathering many a flood , and
copious fed With all the mellowed treasures of the sky , Winds in progressive
majesty along : Thro ' fplendid kingdoms now devolves his maze , 805 Now ...
800 Ambitious , thence the manly river breaks ; And gathering many a flood , and
copious fed With all the mellowed treasures of the sky , Winds in progressive
majesty along : Thro ' fplendid kingdoms now devolves his maze , 805 Now ...
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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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