134 COLIN CLOUT'S CALENDAR. 



and indeterminate boundaries are indeed the rule ; 

 definiteness and distinctness of limitation are but rare 

 exceptions. The primrose fades away into the oxlip, 

 and the oxlip into the cowslip : till at last even the 

 bucolic inquirer is forced to take refuge in the funda- 

 mental doctrine of Hegelianism, and admit that after all 

 in nature every A is also a not-A. 



