...flower. Prepared by THOMAS MEEHAN. 22 WILD FLOWERS AND NATURE. WELCOME TO SPRING. 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. THOMSON. ADDITIONAL NOTES ON MIMULUS....

...that season, nature loves to appear. A reviving fragrance floats in the air. "Come! gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon...cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower, Of shadowing'roses, on our plains descend." The presence of onr Heavenly Father is marked in every step...

...rousing love for Nature, and it contains many beautiful passages. For example : Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. His most artistic poem is Winter : When from the pallid sky the sun descends With many a spot, that...

...The Seasons," "Thomson, who ought to have known better, makes this blunder : " Come, gentle spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend." But we may look on this invocation as a bit of a decorative picture into which the roses are introduced...

...way, And not alone and solitary stray ! JAMES THOMSON FROM THE SEASONS SPRING COME, gentle SPRING, — ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. * * * # * # # And see where surly Winter passes off, 11 Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts...

...way, And not alone and solitary stray ! JAMES THOMSON FROM THE SEASONS SPRING COME, gentle SPRING, — ethereal mildness, come; And from the bosom of yon...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. ******* And see where surly Winter passes off, n Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts : His...

...buds salute the welcome day, And earth relenting feels the genial ray." POPE, " Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon...a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend ! " THOMSON. " Sweet daughter of a rough and stormy sire, Hoar Winter's blooming child, delightful...

...precipitated mass 133 Unbroken floods and solid torrents pour. 1726. 1727. FROM SPRING Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come! And from the bosom of yon...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend! O Hertford, fitted or to shine in courts 5 In soft assemblage, listen to my song, Which thy own season...

...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...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. O Hartford, fitted or to shine in courts With unaffected grace, or walk the plain * The above is the...

...for the weather is often cold and unsettled ; the poet's invocation : — * • Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend, ' is but coyly listened to, .nor as yet answered in effect. The trout are only beginning by short daily...