Unfetter'd and unmix'd. But here the cloud, By boundless love and perfect wisdom form'd 1800 M 2 THE ARGUMENT. The subject proposed. Addressed to Mr. Onslow. A prospect of the fields ready for harvest. Reflections in praise of industry, rais'd by that view. Reaping. A Tale relative to it. A harvest-storm. Shooting and hunting, their barbarity. A ludicrous account of fox hunting. A view of an orchard. Wall-fruit. A vineyard. A description of fogs frequent in the latter part of Autumn; whence a digression, inquiring into the rise of fountains and rivers. Birds of season considered, that now shift their habitation. The prodigious number of them that cover the northern and western Isles of Scotland; hence a view of the country. A prospect of the discoloured, fading woods. After a gentle dusky day, moon-light. Autumnal meteors. Morning; to which succeeds a calm, pure, sun-shiny day, such as usually shuts up the Season. The harvest being gathered in, the country dissolved in joy. The whole concludes with a panegyric on a philosophical country life. AUTUMN. CROWN'D with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf, Onslow the Muse, ambitious of thy name, 5 10 15 20 When the bright Virgin gives the beauteous days, And Libra weighs in equal scales the year, From heaven's high cope the fierce effulgence shook 25 With golden light enliven'd, wide invests |