Fat 7 sheep and | oxen | 7 from the town are led, 7 | | 7 With generous | wine, 77 and | all-sus | taining bread. 7 | | | Full 7 | hecatombs | lay 7 | burning | 7 on the | shore; 7 | 7 The winds to | heav'n | 7 the curling | vapours bore. 7 | | | 7 Un | grateful | offering | 7 to the im | mortal | powers! | 7 Whose | wrath hung | heavy | 7 o'er the | Trojan | towers; | | 7 Nor | Priam | 7 nor his | sons ob | tain'd their grace; 7|| Proud 7 | Troy they | hated, | 7 and her | guilty | race. 7 | | 7 The troops ex | ulting | sat in | order | round, 7 | | 7 And beaming | fires 7 | 7 il | lumin'd | all the | ground. 7 | As when the Moon, 7|7 re | fulgent | lamp of | night, 7 | 7 O'er heav'ns clear | azure | spreads her | sacred | light, 7 | When not a breath7|7 dis | turbs the deep se } rene, 7 And not a cloud 7 | 7 o'er | casts the solemn [ scene, 7 | | 7 A | round her | throne 7 | 7 the | vivid | planets | roll, 7 | 7 And stars un | number'd | gild the glowing| pole, 7 | O'er the dark trees 77 a | yellower | verdure | shed, 7 | 7 And | tip with | silver | every | mountain's | head; Then 7 shine the vales, 7 | 7 the rocks 77 in | prospect | rise, 7 | 7 A flood of glory 7 | bursts from all the skies: 7 1 1 1 7 The conscious | swains, 7 | 7 re | joicing in the | sight 7 | Eye the blue 7 | vault, 7 | 7 and | bless the | glori ous light. 7 | So 7 | many | flames, 7 | 7 be | fore 7 | proud 7 | Ilion blaze, 7 | 7 And | lighten | glimmering | Zanthus | 7 with her rays; 7 | 7 The long reflections | 7 of the distant | fires Gleam on the walls, 7|7 and | tremble | 7 on the spires. 7 | │ 7A | thousand | piles the | dusky | horrors | gild,7 | 7 And | shoot a | shady | lustre | 7 o'er the | field. 7 1 1 1 Full 7 | fifty | guards 7 | each 7 | flaming | pile at | tend, 7 | | 7 Whose | umber'd | arms, 7 | 7 by | fits, 7 | thick 7 | flashes | send, 7| Loud 7 | neigh the coursers | 7 o'er their | heaps of | corn, 7 | 7 And ardent | warriours | | wait the rising morn. 7 | HYMN TO THE DEITY ON THE SEASONS OF THE YEAR. THOMSON. THESE as they change, 7| | Al | mighty | Father, | |these 7 | Are but the varied | God. 7 | | |7 The | rolling | year 7 | | | 7 Is full of thee. 7 | | Forth in the pleasing | Spring 7 | 7 Thy | beauty | walks, 7 | | 7thy | tenderness | 7 and love. 7 | | Wide 7 | flush the | fields, 7 | | 7 the softening | air 7 | 7 is | balm, 7| | Echo the mountains | round, 7 | | 7 the | forest | smiles, 7 | | 7 And | every | sense, 7|7 and | every | heart 7 | 7 is joy. 7 | I Then comes thy | glory | 7 in the summer | months, 7 | 7 With | light and | heat re | fulgent. | | | Then 7 thy | sun 7 Shoots 7 | full per | fection | through the swelling | year. 7||| 7 And oft 77 thy | voice 77 in | dreadful | thunder | speaks. 7 | 7 And oft 7 | 7 at | dawn, 7 | | deep 7 | noon 7 | 7 or falling eve, 7 | 7 By | brooks 7|7 and | groves, 7 | 7 and | hollow I whispering | gales. 71 | | Thy bounty | shines in | Autumn | uncon | fin ed, 7 | 7 And | spreads a common | feast 7 | | 7 for all that live. 7 | │ 7 In | Winter | | awful thou! 7|7 with | clouds and | storms 7 | 7 Around thee | thrown 7 | | tempest o'er | tempest | roll'd: 7 | | 7 Majestic | darkness! | | |7 on the whirlwind's wing 7| Riding | sublime, 7 7 thou | bidst the world 77 a dore, 7 | 7 And | humblest | nature 7 with thy | northern | blast. 7 | | 1 Mysterious round! 7| | |7 what | skill, 7 what force di | vine, 7 | Deep | felt 77 in these ap | pear, 7 | | 7 a | simple | train, 7 | | Yet so delightful | mix'd, 7 | | 7 with | such 7 | kind 7 | art, 7 | Such 7 | beauty | 7 and beneficence | 7 com | bined, 7 | | Shade 7 | unper | ceived, 7 | so 7 | softening | 7 into shade; 71 7 And all 7 | so 7 | forming an har | monious | whole, 7 | That as they still succeed, 7 | 7 they ravish | 7 But | wandering || oft 7|7 with | brute un | conscious | gaze, 7 | Man 7 | marks not | thee, 7 | | marks not the { Works 7 | 7 in the | secret | deep, 7 | | shoots 7 | teeming | thence 7 | 7 The | fair pro | fusion | 7 that o'er | spreads the spring, 7 | | Flings from the | sun di | rect 7 | 7 the | flaming Feeds | every | creature, | | hurls the | tempest | 7 forth: 7| | 7 And as on earth 7 | 7 this | grateful | change re | volves, 7 | 7 With | transport | touches | all the | springs of | Nature | 7 attend! 7 | | join 7 | every | living | soul, 7 | 7 Beneath the | spacious | temple of the sky. 7 7 In | ado | ration | join, 7 | | 7 and | ardent | raise 7 One 7 | general | song! 7| | |7 To | him 7 | 7 ye | vocal | gales, 7 | Breathe 7 soft, 7|7 whose | spirit | 7 in your | freshness | breathes: 7| | | 07 | talk of | him 7 | 7 in | solitary | glooms! 7 | | Where 7 | 7 o'er the | rock, 7 | 7 the scarcely waving pine 7 | |