Or seen the deep-fermenting tempest brew diqs of In the grim evening sky. Thus pass'do the time, A Till through the lucid chambers of the south o gauH Look'd out the joyous Spring, look'd out, and smiled.

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To thee, the patron of this first essay, id ers tois I The Muse, O Wilmington! renews her song.te aill Since has she rounded the revolving year: droidT Skimm'd the gay Spring; on eagle pinions borne, W Attempted through the Summer-blaze to rise pa bo Then swept o'er Autumn with the shadowy galeb W And now among the wintry clouds again, et a 10 Roll'd in the doubling storm, she tries to soar; To swell her note with all the rushing winds;unasi To suit her sounding cadence to the floods-990 As is her theme, her numbers wildly great Thrice happy could she fill thy judging eard With bold description, and with manly thought. A Nor art thou skill'd in awful schemes alone, feszti And how to make a mighty people thrive a But equal goodness, sound integrity, uses to lios szi1 A firm unshaken uncorrupted soulom drew dołu NIA Amid a sliding age, and burning strong, th, 201 Not vainly blazing for thy country's weal, A steady spirit regularly free;1 debony na inshaan ! These, each exalting each, the statesman light goiê Into the patriot; these, the public hope boa sit adp/2 And eye to thee converting, bid the Muses qu ba Record what envy dares not flattery callstadt bu & Now when the cheerless empire of the sky

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And fierce Aquarius stains the' inverted year;
Hung o'er the furthest verge of heaven, the sun
Scarce spreads through ether the dejected day.
Faint are his gleams, and ineffectual shoot
His struggling rays, in horizontal lines,

Through the thick air; as clothed in cloudy storm,
Weak, wan, and broad, he skirts the southern sky;
And, soon descending, to the long dark night,
Wide shading all, the prostrate world resigns.
Nor is the night unwish'd; while vital heat,
Light, life, and joy the dubious day forsake.
Meantime, in sable cincture, shadows vast,
Deep-tinged and damp, and congregated clouds,
And all the vapoury turbulence of heaven,
Involve the face of things. Thus Winter falls,
A heavy gloom oppressive o'er the world,
Through Nature shedding influence malign,
And rouses up the seeds of dark disease.
The soul of man dies in him, loathing life,
And black with more than melancholy views.
The cattle droop; and o'er the furrow'd land,
Fresh from the plough, the dun discolour'd flocks,
Untended spreading, crop the wholesome root.
Along the woods, along the moorish fens,
Sighs the sad Genius of the coming storm:

And up among the loose disjointed cliffs,

And fractured mountains wild, the brawling brook

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And cave, presageful, send a hollow moan, longi Resounding long in listening Fancy's ear.

Then comes the father of the tempest forth,

Wrapp'd in black glooms. First joyless rains obscure
Drive through the mingling skies with vapour foul;
Dash on the mountain's brow, and shake the woods,
That grumbling wave below. The' unsightly plain-¡
Lies a brown deluge; as the low-bent clouds
Pour flood on flood, yet unexhausted still or lof
Combine, and deepening into night shut up en woff
The day's fair face. The wanderers of heaven, 77
Each to his home, retire; save those that love, 18]
To take their pastime in the troubled air,
Or skimming flutter round the dimply pool.
The cattle from the' untasted fields return,

And ask, with meaning low, their wonted stalls, 77
Or ruminate in the contiguous shade.

Thither the household feathery people crowd,
The crested cock, with all his female train,
Pensive, and dripping; while the cottage-hind
Hangs o'er the' enlivening blaze, and taleful there
Recounts his simple frolic: much he talks,

And much he laughs, nor recks the storm that blows

Wide o'er the brim, with many a torrent swell'd,

At last the roused-up river pours along sw 6 21657

Resistless, roaring, dreadful, down it comes ft 9/ From the rude mountain, and the mossy wild,

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Tumbling through rocks abrupt, and sounding far;
Then o'er the sanded valley floating spreads,
Calm, sluggish, silent; till again, constrain'd

Between two meeting hills, it bursts away,
Where rocks and woods o'erhang the turbid stream;
There gathering triple force, rapid and deep,

It boils, and wheels, and foams, and thunders through.
Nature! great parent! whose unceasing hand
Rolls round the Seasons of the changeful year,
How mighty, how majestic are thy works!
With what a pleasing dread they swell the soul !
That sees astonish'd! and astonish'd sings!
Ye too, ye winds! that now begin to blow
With boisterous sweep, I raise my voice to you.
Where are your stores, ye powerful beings? say,
Where your aerial magazines reserved,

To swell the brooding terrors of the storm?
In what far distant region of the sky,

Hush'd in deep silence, sleep ye when 'tis calm ?
When from the pallid sky the sun descends,
With many a spot, that o'er his glaring orb
Uncertain wanders, stain'd; red fiery streaks
Begin to flush around. The reeling clouds
Stagger with dizzy poise, as doubting yet
Which master to obey: while rising slow,
Blank, in the leaden-colour'd east, the moon
Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns.
Seen through the turbid fluctuating air,on vee
The stars obtuse emit a shivering ray; by 9 OR I

Or frequent seem to shoot athwart the gloom, er l
And long behind them trail the whitening blaze.i]
Snatch'd in short eddies, plays the wither'd leafjes 1
And on the flood the dancing feather floats. ema-2
With broaden'd nostrils to the sky upturn'd, olf
The conscious heifer snuffs the stormy gale.sib al
E'en as the matron, at her nightly task, TETUÝ
With pensive labour draws the flaxen thread, is bet
The wasted taper and the crackling flame
Foretell the blast. But chief the plumy race, 70
The tenants of the sky, its changes speak.

Retiring from the downs, where all day long doti They pick'd their scanty fare, a blackening train,{› Of clamorous rooks thick urge their weary flight, And seek the closing shelter of the grove; Assiduous, in his bower, the wailing owl

Plies his sad song. The cormorant on high
Wheels from the deep, and screams along the land.
Loud shrieks the soaring hern; and with wild wing
The circling seafowl cleave the flaky clouds.
Ocean, unequal press'd, with broken tide. [1

And blind commotion heaves; while from the shore,
Eat into caverns by the restless wave, zw Arb§1l
And forest-rustling mountain, comes a voice, to bal
That solemn sounding bids the world prepare wol
Then issues forth the storm with sudden burst,ød 7/
And hurls the whole precipitated airs wob b'das(1
Down, in a torrented. On the passive maîneronbiet
Descends the etherial force, and with strong gust