...dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a show'r Of shadowing roses, on our plains defend. O Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk The plain With innocence and meditation jnio'd ID soft assemhlage, listen to my song, Which thy own...

...opposed t.ri tiint ^fn pur* nnd h^ppy kinrl ^ OME, gentle SPRING, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower _ ^ shadowing roses, on our plains descend. O Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected...

...opposed to that of a pure and happy kind. COME, gentle Spring, ethereal Mildness, come, And from the the plain With innocence and meditation join'd In soft assemblage, listen to my song, Which thy own...

...happy kind. COME, gentle Spring, ethereal Mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloi.d, ural ditties were not mute, Temper'd to the oaten...From the glad sound would not be absent long ; And ol the plain With innocence and meditation join'd In soft assemblage, listen to my song, Which thy own...

...imagination. You may understand me by an example — " And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, AVhile music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend." No doubt, the three or four different perceptions, which compose this delightful image, separately...

...invocation of the Poet of the seasons, " Come, gentle Spring, etherial mildness come, And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...shower, Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend." For " a cloud of shadowing roses," we must. in our latitudes, be content to wait, till, " Chilli of...

...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,...

...beginnt ganz in Kleist'scher Manier, also: 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! O Hartford, fitted, or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain 'With innocence and...

...that of a pure and happy kind. SPRING. COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around,...to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain With innocence and meditation join'd * This poetical allusion to the fall of flowers from...

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