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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SUMMER From brightening fields of ether fair disclosed, Child of the Sun, refulgent Summer comes, In pride of youth, and felt through Nature's depth: He comes attended by the sultry Hours, And ever-fanning breezes, on his way; AVhile, from his ardent look, the turning Spring Averts her blushful face; and earth, and skies, All-smiling, to his hot dominion leaves. Hence, let me haste into the mid-wood shade, WTiere scarce a sunbeam wanders through the gloom; And on the dark-green grass, beside the brink Of haunted stream, that by the roots of oak Rolls o'er the rocky channel, lie at large, And sing the glories of the circling year. Come, Inspiration from thy hermit-seat, By mortal seldom found; may Fancy dare, From thy fixed serious eye, and raptured glance Shot on surrounding Heaven, to steal one look Creative of the Poet, every power Exalting to an ecstasy of soul. And thou, my youthful Muse's early friend, In whom the human graces all unite: Pure light of mind, and tenderness of heart; Genius, and wisdom: the gay social sense, By decency chastised; goodness and wit, In seldom-meeting harmony combined; Unblemished honour, and an active zeal For Britain's glory, liberty, and man: () Dodington attend my rural song, Stoop to my theme, inspirit every line, And teach me to deserve thy just applause. With what an awful world-revolving power Were first th' unwieldly planets launched along Th' illimitable void thus to remain, Amid the flux of many thousand years, That oft has swept the toiling race of men And all their laboured monuments away, Firm, unremitting, matchless, in their course; To the kind-tempered change of night and day, And of the seasons ever stealing round, Minutely faithful: such th' All-perfect hand That poised, imp...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217370653 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217370659 |
| Weight | 0.63 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.43 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 188 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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