And day to day, thro' the revolving year ;
Admiring, fees her in her every shape;

Feels all her sweet emotions at his heart;

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Takes what she liberal gives, nor thinks of more.
He, when young Spring protrudes the bursting gems,
Marks the first bud, and fucks the healthful gale 1310
Into his freshened foul; her genial hours

He full enjoys; and not a beauty blows,

And not an opening bloffom breathes in vain.

In Summer he, beneath the living fhade,

Such as o'er frigid Tempe wont to wave,

Or Hemus cool, reads what the Muse, of these
Perhaps, has in immortal numbers fung;
Or what she dictates writes; and, oft an eye
Shot round, rejoices in the vigorous year.

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When Autumn's yellow luftre gilds the world, 1320

And tempts the fickled fwain into the field,

Seiz'd by the general joy, his heart distends

With gentle throws; and, thro' the tepid gleams

Deep mufing, then he best exerts his fong.

Even Winter wild to him is full of blifs.

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The mighty tempeft, and the hoary waste,
Abrupt, and deep, ftretch'd o'er the buried earth,
Awake to folemn thought. At night the skies,

Disclos'd

Disclos'd, and kindled, by refining frost,

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Pour every luftre on th' exalted eye.

A friend, a book, the stealing hours fecure,

And mark them down for wisdom. With swift wing,
O'er land and sea imagination roams;

Or truth, divinely breaking on his mind,
Elates his being, and unfolds his powers;
Or in his breaft heroic virtue burns.
The touch of kindred too and love he feels;
The modeft eye, whose beams on his alone
Extatic fhine; the little ftrong embrace

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Of pratling children, twin'd around his neck, 1340
And emulous to please him, calling forth

The fond parental foul. Nor purpose gay,
Amusement, dance, or song, he sternly scorns;
For happiness and true philosophy

Are of the focial ftill, and smiling kind.

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This is the life which those who fret in guilt,

And guilty cities, never knew; the life,

Led by primeval ages, uncorrupt,

When angels dwelt, and God himself, with Man!

OH NATURE! all-fufficient! over all! Inrich me with the knowledge of thy works! 04

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Snatch

Snatch me to heaven; thy rolling wonders there,
World beyond world, in infinite extent,
Profufely scattered o'er the blue immense,
Shew me; their motions, periods, and their laws,
Give me to fcan; thro' the disclosing deep
Light my blind way: the mineral ftrata there;

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Thruft, blooming, thence the vegetable world;
O'er that the rifing fyftem, more complex,
Of animals; and higher ftill, the mind,
The varied scene of quick-compounded thought,

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And where the mixing paffions endless shift;
Thefe ever open to my ravifh'd eye;

A fearch, the flight of time can ne'er exhaust!

But if to that unequal; if the blood,

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In fluggish streams about my heart, forbid

That beft ambition; under clofing shades,

Inglorious, lay me by the lowly brook,

And whisper to my dreams. From THEE begin, Dwell all on THEE, with THEE conclude my fong;

And let me never never ftray from THEE!

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WINTER.

WINTER.

The ARGUMENT.

The fubject propofed. Addrefs to the earl of WILMINGTON. First approach of Winter. According to the natural course of the feafon, various forms described. Rain. Wind. Snow. The driving of the fnows: A Man perifbing among them; whence reflections on the wants and miseries of human life. The wolves defcending from the Alps and Apennines. A winter-evening defcribed: as spent by philofophers; by the country people; in the city. Froft. A view of Winter within the polar Circle. A thaw. The whole concluding with moral reflections on a future ftate.