Shooting The subject proposed. Addressed to Mr. Onslow. A prospect of the fields ready for harvest. Reflections in praise of Industry raised by that view. Reaping. A tale relative to it. A harvest storm. 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, moonlight. Autumnal meteors. Morning: to which succeeds a calm, pure, sunshiny day, such as usually shuts up the season. The harvest being gathered in, the coun try 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, To mix the patriot's with the poet's flame. When the bright Virgin gives the beauteous days, And Libra weighs in equal scales the year; With golden light enliven'd, wide invests The happy world. Attemper'd suns arise, Rich, silent, deep, they stand; for not a gale Falls from its poise, and gives the breeze to blow. The clouds fly different; and the sudden sun These are thy blessings, industry! rough power! Raiser of humankind! by Nature cast, |