To live like brothers, and conjunctive all
Embellifh life. While thus laborious crowds
Ply the tough oar, PHILOSOPHY directs

The ruling helm; or like the lib'ral breath
Of potent Heav'n, invifible, the fail

1775

Swells out, and bears th' inferior world along. 1780

NOR to this evanefcent fpeck of earth
Poorly confin'd, the radiant tracts on high
Are her exalted range; intent to gaze
Creation thro'; and, from that full complex
Of never-ending wonders, to conceive
Of the SOLE BEING right, who spoke the Word,
And Nature mov'd complete. With inward view,
Thence on th' ideal kingdom swift she turns
Her eye; and inftant, at her pow'rful glance,
Th' obedient phantoms vanish or appear;
Compound, divide, and into order fhift,
Each to his rank, from plain perception up
To the fair forms of Fancy's fleeting train:
To reafon then, deducing truth from truth;
And notion quite abftract; where firft begins
The world of fpirits, action all, and life
Unfetter'd, and unmixt. But here the cloud,
So wills ETERNAL PROVIDENCE, fits deep.
Enough for us to know that this dark state,
In wayward paffions loft, and vain pursuits,
This Infancy of Being, cannot prove
The final Iffue of the works of God,

By boundless Love and perfect WISDOM form'd,

And ever rifing with the rifing mind.

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AUTU M N.

THE ARGUMENT.

Reflections in

The fubject propofed. Addreffed to Mr. ONSLOW. A profpect of the fields ready for harvest. praife of induftry raised by that view. tale relative to it. A harvest form.

Reaping. A
Shooting and

hunting, their barbarity. A ludicrous account of foxbunting. A view of an orchard. Wall-fruit. A vineyard. A defcription of fogs, frequent in the latter part of Autumn: whence a digreffion, inquiring into the rife of fountains and rivers. Birds of feafon confidered, that now shift their habitation. The prodigious number of them that cover the northern and western ifles of SCOTLAND. Hence a view of the country. A profpect of the difcoloured, fading woods. After a gentle dufky day, moon-light. Autumnal meteors. Merning: to which fucceeds a calm, pure, fun-shiny day, fuch as ufually shuts up the feafon. The harvest being gathered in, the country diffolved in joy. The whole concludes with a panegyric on a philofophical country life.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIRPAR

ASTOR, LENOX AND

TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

AUTUMN.