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enchanting, but vague delight of spring is 

 diminished. 



Such indeed are the charms of reviving 

 nature, such the profusion of fresh, gay, 

 and beautiful colours and of sweets, unit- 

 ed with the ideas of fruitfulness, that they 

 absorb for the moment all other considera- 

 tions: and on a genial day in spring, and 

 in a place where all its charms are dis- 

 played, every man, whose mind is not 

 insensible or depraved, must feel the full 

 force of that exclamation of Adam, when 

 he first awakened to the pleasure of ex- 

 istence ; 



" With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowM" 



I have now mentioned what seem to me 

 the principal beauties and defects of the 

 earlier part of spring, at which time, how- 

 ever, the peculiar character of that season 

 is most striking: for as it advances, and 

 the leaves are more and more expanded, 

 they no longer retain their vernal hue, 

 their gloss of youth; and the trees in the 

 height of summer, lose perhaps as much in 



