THE ARGUMENT. The subject proposed.-Addressed to Mr. Onslow.-A prospect of the fields ready for harvest.-Reflections in praise of industry raised by that view.-Reaping.-A tale relative to it.-A harvest-storm.-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 digression, inquiring into the rise of fountains and rivers.-Birds of season considered, that now shift their habitation.-The prodigious number of them that cover the northern and western isles of Scotland.-Hence a view of the country.-A prospect of the discoloured, fading woods.-After a gentle dusky day, moonlight.-Autumnal meteors.-Morning: to which succeeds a calm, pure, sunshiny day, such as usually shuts up the season.-The harvest being gathered in, the country dissolved in joy.—The whole concludes with a panegyric on a philosophical country life. AUTUM N. BOOK III. Inscribed to Mr. Onslow. CROWN'D with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf, To grace, inspire, and dignify her song, |