...the solitude. Here also Thomson might have composed his well-known address to Lady Hertford : — 0 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...

...beautiful of the seasons ? Thomson says, — " Come, gentle spring, ethereal mildness come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend." This description of spring seems borrowed from Dante's description, in the thirtieth canto of " Purgatory,"...

...mentioned as a part of the bequest. Itirate, Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal mildness, come ! And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. is something inexpressibly pleasant in the act of turning out, snail like, from our shells, for the...

...ethereal Mildness, come, 20 And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend....to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain 25 With innocence and meditation joined In soft assemblage, listen to my song, Which thy...

...opposed lo that of a pure and happy kind. COME, gentle SPRIKO, ethereal Mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on oar plains descend. O Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts 6 With unaffected grace, or walk the plain...

...to the earth : " Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal Mildness ! come, And from the bosom of yon drooping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend." Who, from such a flimsy, round-about, unmeaning commencement as this, would expect the delightful,...

...COME, gentle Spring, ethereal Mildness, eome; And from the bosom of yon dropping eloud, While musie wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains deseend. O HERTFORD, fitted or to shine in eourts 5 With unaffeeted graee, or walk the plain With innoeenee...

...ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend....to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence and meditation joined In soft assemblage, listen to my song, Which thy own...

...COME, gentle Spring, ethereal Mildness, eome ; And from the bosom of yon dropping eloud, While musie wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains deseend O HERTFOND, fitted or to shine in eourts 5 With unaffeeted graee, or walk the plain With innoeenee...

...sometimes save them. THE SEASONS. SPRING. OME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. * * * * Hail ! Source of Being ! Universal Soul Of heaven and earth ! Essential Presence, hails To...