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Or if thro' mists he shoots his sullen beams, 

 Fru-^al of light, in loose and stragglin-g streams ; 



Suspect a dri/.zlinij day with southern rain. 



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Or il Aurora, with half open'd eyes. 

 And a pale sickly choek, salute the skies ; 

 How shall the viae, her tender leaves defend 



Her teeming clusters when the storms descend ? 



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But more than all the setting-sim survey, 



\yhen down the steep of heav'n he drives the day : 



For oft* we find him finishing his race, 



With various colours errinii on his face; 



If fierv red his flowing glube descends, 



High winds and furious tempests he portends; 



But if his cheeks are swoln with livid blue, 



He bodes wet weather by his wat'ryhne; 



W dusky s|30ts arc variea on his brow, 



And streaked with red, a troubled colour shew, 



That sullen mixture shall at once declare 



Winds, rain, and storms, and elemental war. 



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But if with purple rays he brings the light, 

 And a pure heav'n, resigns to quiet niglit; 

 No rising winds nor falling storms are nigh. 



MORE PROGNOSTICS, TAKEN FRO 31 THE 



CLOUDS. 



3d Rule. Clouds large, like rocks, great 

 showers. 



4tli Rule. If small clouds increase, much rain. 



5th Rule. 11" large clouds decrease, lair wea- 

 ther. 



6th Rule. In summer or harvest, when the 

 wind has heen south two or three days, and it 

 grows very hot, and you see clouds rise with 

 white tops, like towers great as if one were on the 

 top of another, and joined together with hlack 

 on the nether side, there will he thunder and raiu 

 suddenly. 



