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posed to be the exclusive prerogative o 

 ^irid although the trath of this opinion cannot be 

 admitted, it must be owned that the susceptibility 

 of the poetic mind cherishes most ardently a 

 feeling which the beneficent Creator has deeply 

 implanted in every breast. It is impossible, in- 

 deed, not to perceive the justice, as well as the 

 beauty, of the description which the Scottish 

 poet gives of his own youthful admiration of na- 

 tural sublimity and beauty 



" I saw thee seek the sounding shore, 

 Delighted with the dashing roar ; 

 Or when the North his fleecy store 



Drove through the sky, 

 I saw grim Nature's visage hoar 



Struck thy young eye. 



" Or when the deep green mantled earth 

 Warm cherished every flowret's birth, 

 And joy and music pouring forth 



In every grove, 

 I saw thee eye the general mirth 



With boundless love. 



" When ripened fields, and azure skies 

 Called forth the reapers' rustling noise, 

 I saw thee leave their evening joys, 



And lonely stalk 

 To vent thy bosom's swelling rise 



In pensive walk." 



These sentiments, although more strongly felt 

 by the poet, and more vividly embodied in his 

 glowing lines, draw a sympathetic response from 

 every heart which has not been debased and 

 brutifted by counteracting influences ; and it is 



