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10 AND see where surly WINTER passes off , Far to the north , and calls his
ruffian blasts : His blafts obey , and quit the howling hill , The shatter'd foreft , and
the ravag'd vale ; While softer gales succeed , at whose kind touch , 15 Diffolving
...
10 AND see where surly WINTER passes off , Far to the north , and calls his
ruffian blasts : His blafts obey , and quit the howling hill , The shatter'd foreft , and
the ravag'd vale ; While softer gales succeed , at whose kind touch , 15 Diffolving
...
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... 115 The clammy mildew ; or , dry - blowing , breathe Untimely frost ; before
whose baseful blast The full - blown spring thro ' all her foliage shrinks , Joyless B
4 В 4 I 20 Joyless and dead , a wide - dejected S P RIN G. - 7.
... 115 The clammy mildew ; or , dry - blowing , breathe Untimely frost ; before
whose baseful blast The full - blown spring thro ' all her foliage shrinks , Joyless B
4 В 4 I 20 Joyless and dead , a wide - dejected S P RIN G. - 7.
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A feeble race ! yet oft The sacred sons of vengeance ! on whose course 125
Corrosive famine waits , and kills the year . To check this plague the skilful farmer
chaff , And blazing straw , before his orchard burns ; Till , all involv'd in smoke ,
the ...
A feeble race ! yet oft The sacred sons of vengeance ! on whose course 125
Corrosive famine waits , and kills the year . To check this plague the skilful farmer
chaff , And blazing straw , before his orchard burns ; Till , all involv'd in smoke ,
the ...
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The wolf , who from the nightly fold Fierce drags the bleating prey , ne'er drunk
her milk , Nor wore her warming fleece : nor has the steer , At whose strong chest
the deadly tyger hangs , 345 E'er plow'd for him . They too are temper'd high ...
The wolf , who from the nightly fold Fierce drags the bleating prey , ne'er drunk
her milk , Nor wore her warming fleece : nor has the steer , At whose strong chest
the deadly tyger hangs , 345 E'er plow'd for him . They too are temper'd high ...
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He , whose toil , Patient and ever ready , clothes the land 365 With all the pomp
of harvest ; shall he bleed , And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands Even
of the clown he feeds ; And that perhaps , To swell the riot of th ' autumnal feast ...
He , whose toil , Patient and ever ready , clothes the land 365 With all the pomp
of harvest ; shall he bleed , And struggling groan beneath the cruel hands Even
of the clown he feeds ; And that perhaps , To swell the riot of th ' autumnal feast ...
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| 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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