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Kent delin.

G.VNeift sc.

Summer.

SUMMER.

The ARGUMENT.

The fubject propofed.

Invocation. Addrefs to Mr. DODINGTON. An introductory reflection on the motion of the beavenly bodies; whence the fucceffion of the Jeafons. 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. Hay-making. 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 Scene. View of Summer in the torrid zone. Storm of thunder and lightning. A tale. The Storm over, a ferene afternoon. Bathing. Hour of walking. Tranfition to the profpect of a rich wellcultivated country; which introduces a panegyric on GREAT BRITAIN. Sun-fet. Evening. Night. A comet. The whole concluding

Summer meteors.

with the praise of philofophy.

SUMMER.

ROM brightening fields of ether fair disclos'd, Child of the Sun, 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 blushful face; and earth, and skies, All-fmiling, to his hot dominion leaves.

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HENCE, let me haste into the mid-wood fhade,
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 serious eye, and raptur❜d glance
Shot on furrounding Heaven, to steal one look
Creative of the Poet, every power
Exalting to an ecstasy of foul.

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AND

AND thou, my youthful Mufe'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 chaftis'd; goodness and wit,
In feldom-meeting harmony combin'd;
Unblemish'd honour, and an active zeal
For BRITAIN'S glory, Liberty, and Man:
O DODINGTON! attend my rural fong,
Stoop to my theme, inspirit every line,
And teach me to deferve thy just applause.

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WITH what an awful world-revolving power Were first the unwieldy planets launch'd along Th' illimitable void! Thus to remain, Amid the flux of many thousand years, That oft has fwept the toiling race of Men, And all their labour'd monuments away, Firm, unremitting, matchlefs, in their course; To the kind-temper'd change of night and day, And of the seasons ever ftealing round, 40 Minutely faithful: Such TH' ALL-PERFECT HAND! That pois'd, impels, and rules the steady WHOLE.

WHEN now no more th' alternate Twins are fir'd,

And Cancer reddens with the folar blaze,
Short is the doubtful empire of the night;

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And foon, obfervant of approaching day,
The meek-ey'd Morn appears, mother of dews,

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