242 LETTER IX. 



■' ; As when Heaven's Fire 



Hath fca&d the Foreji Oaks^ or Mountain 



PineSy 

 With Jinged top their Jiately growth^ tho' bare 

 Stands on the blafted Heath. 

 In fhort, Nevijian Leaves lay then upon the 

 ground, 



^hick as Autumnal Leaves that Jirow the 

 Brooks 



In Vallombrofa^ where th' Etrurian Jhades 



High over-arch' d embower ; — 



Book I. Line 302. 



However, in a few days, they were new clothed^ 

 and adorned with young freih Leaves, fo that the 

 fteep fides of our Mountain looked full as fmiling 

 and verdant as before, and put me in mind of Af/7- 

 ton\ Paradife, where there was perpetual Spring, 

 Book 4. line 264. 



"^he Birds their ^ire apply ; Aires ^ vernal Aires ^ 

 ■ Breathing thejmell of Field and Grove ^ attune 



T'he trembling Leaves y while univerfal Pan 

 ' Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance 

 Led on the eternal Spring, Not that fair field 

 OfEnnay where Proferpine gatheri?ig fiowers 

 Herfelf a fairer flower by gloomy Dis 

 Was gather dy which coft Ceres all that pain 

 ^ofeek her through the world ^y nor that fweet 

 grove 



Of 



