The ARGUMENT. The fubject propofed. Infcribed to the Countess of HARTFORD. The Seafon is defcribed as it affects the various parts of Nature, afcending from the lower to the higher; with digressions arifing from the fubject. Its influence on inanimate Matter, on Vegetables, on brute Animals, and laft on Man ; concluding with a diffuafive from the wild and irregular paffion of Love, oppofed to that of a pure and happy kind. SPRING COME, gentle SPRING, ethereal Mildness, come, And from the bofom of yon dropping cloud, While mufic wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing rofes, on our plains defcend. O HARTFORD, fitted or to shine in courts AND fee where furly WINTER paffes off, As yet the trembling year is unconfirm'd, Ar laft from Aries rolls the bounteous fun, 20 25 Lifts the light clouds fublime, and fpreads them thin, 30 Fleecy and white, o'er all-furrounding heaven. - FORTH fly the tepid airs; and unconfin'd, 35 Drives from their ftalls, to where the well-us'd plough Lies in the furrow, loofened from the froft, There, unrefufing to the harness'd yoke They lend their shoulder, and begin their toil, 40 WHITE thro'the neighbouring fields the fower ftalks, With measur'd step; and liberal throws the grain 45 Into the faithful bosom of the ground: The harrow follows harsh, and shuts the fcene. B& |