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They gather sweets from each exhaling bloom. 



To see the wild-flowers, one by one, expand 



Their colours to the Heavens, the strawberry flower, 



The perfumed primrose, and the violet nursed 



By spring's renewed delight with thousand forms 



Unnamed, though beautiful, that spread around 



Their glowing dyes, or lean with fragile grace 



On every wandering wind, or in some spot 



Secret and lonely to the curious eye, 



Display minute perfection and tis sweet 



To listen to the loud and stirring tone 



Of the lark's measure mounting through the sky, 



To welcome the glad morning with a song; 



While far around from every blossomed bough 



Saluting and respondent, loud and clear, 



Exults the wood-land music, every voice 



Of rapturous melody unites its tone 



To swell the sweet orison. 



When the noon y 



Glowing with radiance, rules in fervid power 

 The shaded margin of the stream invites 

 Repose upon its softness ; we may mark , 

 In watchful rest upon the sunny grass, 

 Or darting through the shrubs like gleams of light, 

 * The nimble lizard and innoxious snake 

 Clad in refulgent mail. And when we turn 

 Our gaze upon the bosom of the flood 

 We see, beneath, the crimson spotted trout 

 Glide slowly near or with a lightning dart 

 Triumphing through the waters, or at rest 

 Like a transparent image, midway poised, 

 Watching the whirlings of some wanton fly 

 That riots o'er its grave. 



Around us throng 



A world of insects in their pride of hue ; 

 The sun beams are instinct with winged life, 

 And lovely little thousands fill the sky 

 t Like flowerets floating through the rich warm air. 



J^acerta communis, Anguis fragilis, &c. are common in Cann Wood, 

 f Florem putares nare per liquidum aethera. 



P. Commire 

 VOL. I. 1833. E2 



