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SUMME R.

The ARGUMENT.

The Jubject propofed. Invocation. Addrefs to Mr. DODINGTON. An introductory reflection on the motion of the heavenly bodies; whence the fucceffion of the feafons. As the face of Nature in this feafon is almost uniform, the progress of the poem is a description of a fummer's day. The dawn. Sun-rifing. Hymn to the fun. Forenoon. Summer infects defcribed. Haymaking. Sheep-fhearing. Noon-day. A woodland retreat. Groupe of herds and flocks. A folemn grove. How it affects a contemplative mind. A cataract, and rude fcene. View of Summer in the torrid zone. Storm of thunder and lightning. A tale. The ftorm over, a ferene afternoon. Bathing. Hour of walking. Tranfition to the profpect of a rich well-cultivated country; which introduces a panegyric on GREAT BRITAIN. Sun-fet. Evening. Night. Summer A comet. The whole concluding with the

meteors.

praife of philofophy.

WKent inv.ct del

SUMMER.

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FROM brightening fields of ether fair disclos'd,

Child of the fun, refulgent SUMMER comes, In pride of youth, and felt thro' Nature's depth : He comes attended by the fultry hours,

And ever-fanning breezes, on his way;

While, from his ardent look, the turning SPRING
Averts her blufhful face; and earth, and fkies,
All-fmiling, to his hot dominion leaves.

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HENCE, let me hafte into the mid-wood shade,
Where scarce a fun-beam wanders thro' the gloom; 10
And on the dark-green grafs, befide the brink
Of haunted stream, that by the roots of oak
Rolls o'er the rocky channel, lie at large,
And fing the glories of the circling year.

COME, Infpiration! from thy hermit-feat,
By mortal feldom found: may Fancy dare,
From thy fix'd ferious eye, and raptur'd glance
Shot on furrounding Heaven, to steal one look
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