The ARGUMENT, The fubject propofed. Invocation. Addrefs to Mr. DoAn introductory reflection on the motion DINGTON. of the heavenly bodies; whence the fucceffion of the feaJons. As the face of Nature in this feafon is almost uniform, the progress of the poem is a description of a fummer's day. The dawn. Sun-rifing. Hymn to the fun. Forenoon. Summer infects defcribed. Haymaking. Sheep-fhearing. Noon-day. A woodland retreat. Groupe of herds and flocks. A folemn grove: how it affects a contemplative mind. A cataract, and rude fcene. View of Summer in the torrid zone. Storm of thunder and lightning. A tale. The ftorm over, a ferene afternoon. Bathing. Hour of walking. Tranfition to the prospect of a rich well-cultivated country; which introduces a panegyric on GREAT BRITAIN. Sun-fet. Evening. Night. Summer meteors. comet. The whole concluding with the praise of philoSophy, A Allan delin Caldwall Soulp June 11778. Published as the Act directs by Murray. N32 Fleet Street Lond F ROM brightening fields of ether fair difclos'd, Child of the fun, refulgent SUMMER comes, In pride of youth, and felt thro' Nature's depth : He comes attended by the fultry hours, And ever-fanning breezes, on his way; While, from his ardent look, the turning SPRING HENCE, let me hafte into the mid-wood fhade, Where fcarce a fun-beam wanders thro' the gloom; IQ And on the dark green grafs, befide the brink Of haunted ftream, that by the roots of oak Rolls o'er the rocky channel, lie at large, And fing the glories of the circling year, COME, COME, Infpiration! from thy hermit-seat, AND thou, my youthful Mufe's early friend, WITH what an awful world-revolving power That oft has swept the toiling race of Men, 15 201 25 30 35 And |