And mark them down for wisdom. With swift wing O'er land and sea imagination roams; Or truth, divinely breaking on his mind, Are of the social, still, and smiling kind. When Angels dwelt, and God himself, with Man! Enrich me with the knowledge of thy works! Of animals; and higher still, the mind, A search, the flight of time can ne'er exhaust ! In sluggish streams about my heart, forbid And whisper to my dreams. From thee begin, WINTER. DRAWN BY RICHARD WESTALLRA ENGRAVED BY CHARLES ROLLS: PUBLISHED BY JOHN SHARPE, LONDON. JAN. 1,1825. The subject proposed. Address to the Earl of Wilmington. First approach of Winter. According to the natural course of the season, various storms described. Rain. Wind. Snow. The driving of the snows: a man perishing among them; whence reflections on the wants and miseries of human life. The wolves descending from the Alps and Apennines. A winter evening described; as spent by philosophers; by the country people; in the city. Frost. A view of Winter within the polar circle. A thaw. The whole concluding with moral reflections on a future state. SEE, WINTER Comes, to rule the varied year, Vapours, and Clouds, and Storms. Be these my theme, And sung of Nature with unceasing joy, Pleased have I wander'd through your rough domain; Trod the pure virgin-snows, myself as pure; Heard the winds roar, and the big torrent burst; |