Thomson and Pollok: containing The seasons, by James Thomson, and The course of time, by Robert Pollok, A. M.

SPRING.
The subject proposed. Inscribed to the Countess of Hertford. The
Season is described as it affects the various pants of Natute,
ascending romn thelower to the bhgher; with digressions arising
from the subject. Its influence on inanimate Matt -r, on Vegetables, on brute Animals, and last on Man; concluding with. a disuasive from the wild and irregular passion of Love, opposed to
that of a pure and happy kind.
COME, gentle SPRING, ethereal Mildness, come,
And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud,
While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower
Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
0 Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts 5
With unaffected grace, or walk the plain
With innocence and meditation join'd
In soft assemblage, listen to my song,
Which thy own Season paints; when Nature all
Is blooming and benevolent, like thee. 10
And see where surly WINrER passes off,
Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts:
His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill,
The shatter'd forest, and the ravaged vale;
While softer gales succeed, at whose kind touch, 1.5
Dissolving snows in livid torrents lost,
The mountains lift their green heads to the sky
As yet the trembling year is unconfirm'd,
And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze,
Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets 20
Deform the day delightless: so that scarce
The bittern knows his time, witr bill ingulf'd,
To shake the sounding marsh; or from the shore
The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath,
And sing their wild notes to the listening waste. 25

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