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SPRING.

THE ARGUMENT,

The subject proposed.-Inscribed to the Countess of Hertford. -The Season is described as it affects the various parts of Nature, ascending from the lower to the higher; with digressions arising from the subject.-Its influence on inanimate matter, on vegetables, on brute animals, and, last, on Man concluding with a dissuasive from the wild and irregular passion of love, opposed to that of a pure and happy kind.

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SPRING.

BOOK I.

The Subject proposed. -Inscribed to the Countess of Hertford.

COME, gentle SPRING! ethereal Mildness! come;
And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud,
While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower
Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.

O HERTFORD! fitted or to shine in courts

With unaffected grace, or walk the plain
With innocence and meditation join'd
In soft assemblage, listen to my song,

Which thy own Season paints; when Nature all
Is blooming and benevolent, like thee.

And see where surly WINTER passes off,

Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts;
His blasts ohey, and quit the howling hill,

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