DRAWN BY RICHARD WESTALL, R. A. ENGRAVED BY W. FINDEN; PUBLISHED BY JOHN SHARPE, LONDON. SEPT 29, 1826. O DE S. ON THE SPRING. Lo! where the rosy-bosom'd Hours, 0. Hemer. Humas Venes 4.5 xquacéru Kes"wor Comus. 86. qush. Then, Fair Venus' train, appear, ad apollin. 194. Spring 1007 olesias Erg. 75, Haguen Disclose the long expecting flowers, And wake the purple year! The Attic warbler pours her throat, Properties H. XVI. 6. Oric Responsive to the cuckoo's note, Halicut 110. The untaught harmony of Spring: While, whispering pleasure as they fly, Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling. so Milion.com.000 Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade, Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech < Beside some water's rushy brink With me the muse shall sit, and think (At ease reclined in rustic state) How vain the ardour of the crowd, How indigent the great! B Still is the toiling hand of Care; intri The panting herds repose: by the disea Yet hark, how through the peopled air The busy murmur glows! The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, knie a this. And float amid the liquid noon : Some lightly o'er the current skim, To Contemplation's sober eye And they that creep, and they that fly, In Fortune's varying colours dress'd: Methinks I hear, in accents low, The sportive kind reply: Poor moralist! and what art thou? A solitary fly! Thy joys no glittering female meets, We frolic while 'tis May. |