Whose mild vibrations foothe the parted foul, 1735 Hence through her nourish'd powers, enlarg'd by thee, She fprings aloft, with elevated pride, Above the tangling mafs of low defires, That bind the fluttering crowd; and, angel-wing'd, 1740 Where all is calm and clear; with Nature round, To Reason's and to Fancy's eye display'd: The Fir up-tracing, from the dreary void, 1745 The world-producing Effence, who alone The whole magnificence of heaven and earth, Obvious or more remote, with livelier fenfe, 1750 Diffufive painted on the rapid mind. Tutor'd by thee, hence Poetry exalts Her voice to ages; and informs the page With mufic, image, fentiment, and thought, Never to die! the treasure of mankind! 1755 Their highest honour, and their truest joy! Without thee what were unenlighten'd man? A favage roaming through the woods and wilds, 1760 Nor Nor guardian law were his; nor various skill 1765 1770 Swells out, and bears th' inferior world along. 1780 Of the Sole Being right, who spoke the Word, And Nature mov'd complete. With inward view, 1790 Το To reafon then, deducing truth from truth; By boundless Love and perfect Wisdom form'd, 1795 1800 AUTUM N. AUTUM N. 1730. THE ARGUMENT. The fubject propofed. Addreffed to Mr. Onflow. A profpect of the fields ready for harveft. Reflections in praise of industry raised by that view. Reaping. A tale relative to it. A harveft-ftorm. Shooting and hunting, their barbarity. A ludicrous account of fox-hunting. A view of an orchard. Wall-fruit. A vineyard. A description of fogs, frequent in the latter part of Autumn : whence a digreffion, enquiring into the rife of fountains and rivers. Birds of feafon confidered, that now shift their habitation. The prodigious number of them that cover the northern and western ifles of Scotland. Hence a view of the country. A profpect of the difcoloured, fading woods. After a gentle dufky day, moon-light. Autumnal meteors. Morning: to which fucceeds a calm, pure, fun-fhiny day, fuch as ufually shuts up the feafon. The harvest being gathered-in, the country diffolved in joy. The whole concludes with a panegyric on a philofophical country life. C ROWN'D with the fickle and the wheaten fheaf, While Autumn, nodding o'er the yellow plain, Comes jovial on; the Doric reed once more, Well Well pleas'd, I tune. Would from the Public Voice thy gentle ear To mix the patriot's with the poet's flame. When the bright Virgin gives the beauteous days, And Libra weighs in equal scales the year; 5 10 15 20 From heaven's high cope the fierce effulgence fhook 25 Of parting fummer, a ferener blue, With golden light enliven'd, wide invefts The happy world. Attemper'd funs arise, Sweet-beam'd, and fhedding oft through lucid clouds Rich, filent, deep, they ftand; for not a gale A calm |