...ethereal mildness, come: And from the bosom of your dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend....to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence and meditation joined YOL. XIX. — 25 10592 JAMES THOMSON. In soft assemblage,...

...dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. 0 Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence and meditation joined In soft assemblage, listen to my song, Which thy own...

...FLOWERS AND NATURE. WELCOME TO SPRING. Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal Mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. THOMSON. ADDITIONAL NOTES ON MIMULUS. — The genus Mimultts is almost exclusively American, and most...

...Spring, as descending to the earth. ' Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal Mildness ! come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.' Who, from such a flimsy, round-about, unmeaning commencement as this, would expect the delightful,...

...all events too enduring for Thomson's powers of pacification. It was in vain that he piped off — " Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With Innocence and Meditation joined » In soft assemblage." In vain ! In vain ! The lady...

...all events too enduring for Thomson's powers of pacification. It was in vain that he piped off— " Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With Innocence and Meditation joined In soft assemblage." In vain! In vain! The lady declined...

...Autumn, and Winter," but certainly not at Marlborough, for he was invited there no more by his " dear Hertford." " Fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence and meditation joined In soft assemblage ..." Nor could he any longer, as...

...Pope. The bracketed words are cancelled. COME, gentle Spring, JEthereal Mildness, come, And from the Bosom of yon dropping Cloud, While Music wakes around,...Shower Of shadowing Roses, on our Plains descend. 5 Oh Hertford, fitted, or to shine in Courts B 5 c 5 i> 5 With unaffected Grace, or walk the Plain,...

...death, No bounds to human woe. Campbell. Come gentle Spring ! ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...a shower Of shadowing roses on our plains descend. — Thomson. Lo ! how the Years to come, a numerous and well-fitted quire, All hand in hand do decently...

...with this sanguine invocation : — " Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal mildness, come ! And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While Music wakes around,...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend." This expectation of roses in spring reminds one of the fact that Thomson dwelt in Richmond Park, where...