...like a silver mantle over^the darkness, the scene closes in a flood of splendour. EXERCISES. Spring. Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal mildness ! come ! And...bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend ! And see where surly Winter passes off,...

...a dissuasive from the wild and irregular passion of Love, opposed to that of a pure and bappy kind. COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And...bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd iu a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. 0 HERTFORD, fitted or to shine in courts...

...the eye of faith resting on the blessedness of the second Eden, exclaim with triumphant exultation, "Come, gentle spring! ethereal mildness ! come; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud Of balm of Paradise and heavenly dews, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses,...

...it thus, however, we must be content to wait till "gentle spring" and "refulgent summer" arrive. " Come, gentle spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon dripping cloud, While music wakes around, vnil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plain descend."...

...Where smiling Spring its earliest visit paid, And parting Summer lingering blooms delayed. Goldsmith. Come, gentle spring, ethereal mildness, come, And from the bosom of yon drooping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend....

...joy. And all this in answer to the cries of earth, parched and dry, invoking in poetic strains — " Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal mildness, come ! And...around, veiled in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plaius deseend !" Thus the oceans and seas furnish every drop that irrigates our fields and gardens,...

...though rather hinted than fully depicted, is eminently beautiful : " Come, gentle Spring, etherial mildness come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a showei Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend." Here Spring is conceived as a person,...

...he represents the Spring, his own lovely, fresh, and inuoccnt Spring, as descending to the earth : "Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness ! come, And from the bosom of yon drooping cloud, While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend."...

...Seasons has very considerately called ours "gentle Spring," coining ''mildly." " Come, gentle Spring I ethereal mildness ! come ; And from the bosom of yon...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. While softer gales succeed, at whose kind touch, Dissolving snows in livid torrents lost, The mountains...

...Did I with Clio pace my way, And not alone and solitary stray ! JAMES THOMSON FROM THE SEASONS SPRING COME, gentle SPRING, — ethereal mildness, come ;...shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. ******* And see where surly Winter passes off, n Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts : His...