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. SU UM ME R. 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 5 HENCE, let me hafte into the mid-wood shade, COME, Infpiration! from thy hermit-feat, D 15 Creative |