feLACK-HEATH— FOREST-HILL — AUTUMX. 



Where health will twine for you a wreath, 

 Where the Campanula* blooms yet ; 

 Where Chamomile sanescent grows, 

 Call'd by the learned Anthemis,f 

 Specifically nobilis, — 



And Heath her beauteous blossom shows, — 

 There oft I rove. On Forest-Hill 

 I drink of pleasure's cup my fill ; — 

 There listen to, the shades among. 

 The Redbreast's soft, autumnal song ; 

 Or hear the Thrush, a farewell lay 

 Pour out, as sinks to rest the day ; 

 While from the stubble sudden spring 

 The Partridges, on sounding wing; — 

 No, social Rasors ! ne'er will I 

 Send death amongst you as you flyt. 



* Campanula patula, — See a subsequent note. 



t Antliemis nobilis^ or Common Chamomile with shigk 

 flowers ; the cultivated variety has double flowers. Whatever 

 may be the merits of the LinncEan, and other scientific systems 

 of botany; it is, nevertheless, greatly to be feared, that, from 

 their apparent complexity and verbosity, it will be a long time 

 indeed before they will come (if ever) into general use, and 

 supersede the present trivial nomenclature. 



J For some account of the misery produced by firing among 

 flocks of birds, see the notes to the House Sparrow's Speech. For 

 an explanation of the term Rasor, see the prose portion of this 

 Introduction. 



