BLACK-HEATH FOREST-HILL — AUTUMN. 



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 fly£. 



* Campanula patula. — See a subsequent note. 



t Anthemis nobilis. or Common Chamomile with single 

 Sowers; 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. 



X 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. 



