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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 Excerpt: ...grew, Thy kindred seasons to subdae! Rock'd by the hurricane, or cast Upon the swift wings of the blast; Thy nurse, the boist'rous north, whose hand Bestow'd the petrifying wand, Taught thee, with desolating breath To form the icy chains of death; Till with resistless fury proud, Exulting, pitiless, and loud, Thou bad'st faint Nature own thy hour, And smot'st her with a giant's pow'r! Now gliding on revolving years, Thou chill'st the ocean, earth, and spheres! Yet, transient is thy tyrant reign, Ere nature wakes and smiles again; Ere spring leads on the rosy hours, Calls forth her perfumes, tints, and flow'rs; Bids zephyrus unlock the streams, And revel in the fost'ring beams, While round the tow'ring trunk they play, To renovate the shrivell'd spray! Then up the darting shafts of light, The insect myriads bend their flight, And mingling in a mazy throng, With rapture hum their busy song, To greet the proud effulgent ray That deigns to gild their little day! Oh! ye! who nurs'd in mis'ry's breast, Have long forgot the hour of rest! Ye who have trac'd with ceaseless tears The seasons of disastrous years, Behold the gaudy painted fly, The offspring of a sunny sky; And trust that He who gilds its wing With all the rainbow hues of spring; Who gives the lark its plumage gay. To skim along the floods of day; Who bids the busy lab'ring ant Foresee the freezing hour of want; Who guides the spider's vital loom To weave th' unwary insect's doom, Will teach the sensate reas'ning Mind, fr-To own his pow'r, and bow resign'd! TO HIM WHO LAMENTED SEEING A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WEEP. The tear that falls from Lesbia's eye, Down her soft cheek in pity flows; As ether drops forsake the sky, To cheer the drooping blushing Bose! For, like the Sun, her eyes diffuse O'er her fair cheek ...

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