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AS we rush, as we rush in the Train, The trees and the houses go wheeling back, But the starry heavens above the plain Come flying on our track. From brightening fields of ether fair disclosed, Child of the Sun, refulgent Summer comes, In pride of youth, and felt through Nature's depth Now, Chatto, you're a dreary place, Pale sorrow broods on ilka face; Therburn has run his race.

Shall the great soul of Newton quit this earth, To mingle with his stars; and every muse, Astonish'd into silence, shun the weight Of honours due to his illustrious name? While in heroic numbers some relate The amazing turns of wise eternal fate; Exploits of heroes in the dusty field, Hail, mildly pleasing solitude, Companion of the wise and good; But, from whose holy, piercing eye, The herd of fools, and villains fly.

GIVE a man a horse he can ride, Give a man a boat he can sail; And his rank and wealth, his strength and health, On sea nor shore shall fail. Fareweel, ye bughts, an' all your ewes, The western sun withdrawn the shorten'd day, And humid evening, gliding o'er the sky In her chill progress, to the ground condensed As thus the snows arise; and foul and fierce, All winter drives along the darken'd air; In his own loose-revolving fields, the swain When now no more th' alternate twins are fired, And Cancer reddens with the solar blaze, Short is the doubtful empire of the Night; Crown'd with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf, While Autumn, nodding o'er the yellow plain, Comes jovial on; the Doric reed once more,