The ARGUMENT. The Subject proposed. Invocation. Address to Mr. DODINGTON. An introductory reflection on the motion of the heavenly bodies; whence the fuccession of the Seasons. As the face of Nature in this season is almost uniform, the progress of the poem is a defcription of a fummer's day. The dawn. Sun-rising. Hymn to the fun. Forenoon. Summer infects described. Hay making. Sheep-shearing. 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 Serene afternoon. Bathing. Hour of walking. Transition to the prospect of a rich well-cultivated country; which introduces a panegyric on GREAT BRITAIN. Sun-Set. Evening. Night. Summer meteors. A comet. The whole concluding with the praise of philosophy. SUMMER. F ROM brightening fields of ether fair disclos'd, In pride of youth, and felt thro' Nature's depth: He comes attended by the fultry hours, And ever-fanning breezes, on his way; 5 While, from his ardent look, the turning SPRING All-fmiling, to his hot dominion leaves. HENCE, let me haste into the mid-wood shade, Where scarce a fun-beam wanders thro' the gloom; 10 And on the dark-green grass, beside 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. K COME, Inspiration! from thy hermit-feat, By mortal feldom found: may Fancy dare, From thy fix'd ferious eye, and raptur'd glance Shot on furrounding Heaven, to steal one look 15 Creative |