THE HAZEL. 37 



Ye fwains, now haften to the hazel-bank, 

 Where, down yon dale, the wildly-winding brook 

 Falls hoarfe from fteep to fleep. In clofe array, 

 Fit for the thickets and the tangling flirub, 

 Ye virgins, come. For you their lateft fong 

 The woodlands raife ; the cluttering nuts for you 

 The lover finds amid the fecret ihade; 

 And, where they burnim on the topmoft bough, 

 With aclive vigour crufties down the tree, 

 Or (hakes them ripe from the refigning hufk. 



Jlutumn. 



They are a favourite food of fquirrels, 

 which lay them up in their winter hoards, 

 and always take care to pick out the beft. It 

 is a common obfervation, that a plentiful 

 year for nuts is the fame for wheat. 



The filbert is a variety of the common 

 nut, diftinguifhed by a longer fruit, and a 

 thinner Ikin. It is cultivated in plantations 

 in the Kentifh orchards, and yields a va- 

 luable product. 



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