"Thence on th' ideal kingdom swift she turns By boundless LOVE and perfect Wisdom form'd, 1790 1795 1800 AUTUMN, The ARGUMENT. The fubject propofed. Addreffed to Mr ONSLOW. A profpect of the fields ready for harvest. Reflections in praife of industry, raised by that view. Reaping. A tale relative to it. A harvefi-ftorm. Shooting and hunting, their barbarity. A ludicrous account of fox-hunting. A view of an orchard. Wall-fruit. Avineyard. A description of fogs, frequent in the latter part of AUTUMN: whence a digreffion, enquiring 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 prospect of the difcoloured, fading woods. After a gentle dufky day, moon-light. Autumnal meteors. Morning: to which fucceeds a calm, pure, fun-fhiny day, fuch as usually 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. AUTUM N. YROWN'D with the fickle and the wheaten fheaf, ONSLOW! the Mufe, ambitious of thy name, ΙΟΥ 15. Though weak in power, yet strong in ardent will, Whene'er her country rushes on her heart,20 Affumes a bolder note, and fondly tries.... To mix the patriot's with the poet's flame. When the bright Virgin gives the beauteous days, From heaven's high cope the fierce effulgence shook • 26 1. With golden light enliven'd wide invests L 2 t A pleafing |