Ode from the Tenth Chapter of the Prophecy of Isaiah 265 267 ་ ARGUMENT. An ancient Poet's Comparison of the supposed Non-existence of Man after Death with the vernal Revival of the Vegetable World—The Lesson which ought to have been deduced from that Revival-Appearance of a Forest in May Forest Trees The Angler Forest Flowers-Analogy between the Diversity of Vegetable Productions and the Diversity of Human Talents-Forest Birds-Address to Parents-Deer-Cattle from the Highlands of Scotland, and their attendant Herdsman Benefits of the Union of England and Scotland The Herdsman's History-Fall of Timber — Charcoalburners Nature provides for the Succession of Trees-Comparative Freedom of Forest Trees, and of Trees taken under the more immediate Control of Man- This subject illustrated by a Comparison between the State of the People of Great Britain and that of the Hindoos-Duty of the former nation towards the latter. - WALK THE FIRST. * SPRING. THE meanest herb we trample in the field "Or in the garden nurture, when its leaf "In Autumn dies, forebodes another Spring, "And from brief slumber wakes to life again. "Man wakes no more! Man, peerless, valiant, wise, "Once chill'd by death, sleeps hopeless in the dust, "A long unbroken, never-ending sleep!' Such was thy plaint, untutor❜d bard, when May, era. Αι, αι, ται μαλακαι μεν επαν καλα καπον ολωνίας Υσερον αυ ζωονία, και εις εξας αλλο φυονίς. Άμμες δ' οι μεγάλοι, και καρτεροι, η σοφοι άνδρες, Εύδομες εν μαλα μακρον, αλεςμονα, νηχρείον υπνον. MOSCHUS, in Epitaph. BioN. + Moschus flourished about two hundred years before the Christian |