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The Seasons, and Castle of Indolence; To Which Is Prefixed the Life of the Author
The Seasons and Castle of Indolence To Which Is Prefixed the Life of the Author Author:James Thomson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1826 Original Publisher: printed by and for H.L. Br?nner Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.c... more »om where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: II Y M N. Thksk, ns they chunprc, Aliui'hfy Father, these Are hut the varied God. The nillin year Is lull of Thee. Forth in the | leiisin. Spring Thy heiiuty walks, Thy tendencti and line. Wide Hush the field; the sol. lcniii". a!r is balin; Keho the mountains round; tbe lores! smiles; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes Thy "'lory in the Summer inontbH, With light and heat refulgent. Then Thy sun Shoots full perfection through the Hwcllinp; year: And oft Thy voice in dreadful llmiulcr s| icnl: And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, Ity brooks and groves, in hollow-whixpering piles Thy homily shines in Autumn uneonnVd, And spreads a common feast for all lives. In Winter, awful Thou! with r. loudo and storms Around Thee thrown, tempest o'er tempest roll'd, Majestic durknesn! on the whirlwind's wing, Riding siihliinr. Thou liidsl, the world adore, And hiiinlile.-l. nature with Thy northern hlnnt. Mysterious round! what skill, what force divine. Ureu fell, in thesc appear! a simple train, Yet so delightful mix'd, with suc-b kind art. Such beauty and beneficence combin'd; Shade, unucrceiv'd, so softening into shade ; And all so forming an harmonious whole; That, as they still succeed, they ravish still. But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty hand, That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres; Works in the secret deep; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring; Flings from the sun direct the flamin...« less