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of feeling, and of tafte — all are gratified* 

 The fields, fpread with green-fhooting herb- 

 age, appear enchantingly variegated with the 

 cowflip, the yellow crocus, and the daify. 

 While the fleecy herd patiently crop the fuc- 

 culent plant, the young lambs are feen {kip- 

 ping, innocent and playful, at the fides of 

 their dams. The hedges protrude the ver- 

 dant bud and fwelling bloffbm to drefs their 

 chilly nakednefs, and the trees, cafting off the 

 dull coat of winter, affume the foft livery of 

 the feafon. The fragrant odours of the ap- 

 ple bloffom, the hawthorn, and the violet 

 are exhaled around — the blackbird, the thrufh, 

 and the nightingale, warbling foft carols 

 amidft the budding bufhes, enchant the 

 ear. The very organs of tafte are regaled 

 with frefhnefsfrom the mild falubrious breeze ; 

 and to the whole frame a genial feeling is 

 imparted by the foftering rays of a tempe- 

 rate and cheering fun. 



In mental retrofpe£t do I oft-times con- 

 template a fcene which every Englishman of 

 feeling muft have frequently enjoyed. Taking 

 him from the bufy hum of the world, my 

 fancy leads the lover of nature into the en- 



