Nor moral excellence, nor focial bliss, Swells out, and bears th' inferior world along, Thence on th' ideal kingdom swift she turns The final Iffue of the works of GOD, By boundless Love and perfect WISDOM form'd, And ever rifing with the rifing mind. THE ARGUMENT. The fubject propofed. Addreffed to Mr. ONSLOW. A prospect of the fields ready for harvest. Reflections in praise of induftry raised by that view. Reaping. A tale relative to it. A harvest storm. Shooting and hunting, their barbarity. Aludicrous account of fox-hunting. A view of an orchard. Wallfruit. 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 prospect of the discoloured, fading woods. After a gentle dusky day, moon-light. Autumnal meteors. Morning: to which fucceeds a calm, pure, fun-shiny day, fuch as ufually fhuts up the feason. The har veft being gathered in, the country diffolved in joy. The whole concludes with a panegyric on a philosophical coun try-life. |