Amufement, dance, or fong, he fternly scorns ;
For happiness and true philofophy

Are of the focial ftill, and fmiling kind.

This is the life which those who fret in guilt,
And guilty cities, never knew; the life,
Led by primeval ages, uncorrupt,

1345.

When angels dwelt, and God himself, with Man

1350

OH NATURE! all-fufficient! over all!
Inrich me with the knowledge of thy works!
Snatch me to heaven; thy rolling wonders there,
World beyond world, in infinite extent,
Profufely scattered o'er the blue immense,
Shew me; their motions, periods, and their laws,
Give me to fcan; thro' the difclofing deep 1356
Light my blind way: the mineral strata there;
Thruft, blooming, thence the vegetable world;
O'er that the rifing fyftem, more complex,
Of animals; and higher ftill, the mind,
The varied scene of quick-compounded thought,
And where the mixing paffions endless shift;
These ever open to my ravish'd eye;

A fearch, the flight of time can ne'er exhaust!
But if to that unequal; if the blood,

1360

1365

In fluggish ftreams about my heart, forbid
That beft ambition; under clofing fhades,
Inglorious, lay me by the lowly brook,
And whisper to my dreams. From THEE begin,
Dwell all on THEE, with THEE Conclude my fong;
And let me never never ftray from THEE! 1371
WINTER.

WINTER.

The ARGUMENT.

The fubject propofed. Addrefs to the earl of WILMINGTON. Fifi approach of Winter. According to the natural course of the feafin, various forms defcribed. Rain. Wind. Snow. The driving of the fnows: A man perishing among them; whence reflections on the wants and miferies of human life. The wolves defcending from the Alps and Apennines. A winter-evening defcribed: as Spent by philofophers; by the country people; in the city. Froft. A view of Winter within the polar Circle. A thaw. The whole concluding with moral reflections on a future flate.