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# A Month's Tour This page contains poetry rather than prose—specifically, a romantic poem titled "A Month's Tour." The verses celebrate nature's pleasures across the seasons, invoking classical imagery (Aurora, Philomela, Flora, Elysium) while describing pastoral scenes of flowers, fields, and countryside retreat. The speaker expresses a desire to spend time in "calm reflection and poetic ease," tending flowers and vines while exploring spring's beauty and offering praise to nature's creator. The poem employs archaic spelling and orthography typical of earlier printing traditions.
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A MONTH’ TOUR. “Each fragrant herb, tree, fruit and *namel’d flow’r, With fwelling buds falute the vernal hour: ‘How fweet to hear the mufic of the grove, Refounding with enrapturd ftrains of love ! To walt at eve, and lift’ning catch the fong ‘That warbled flows from Philomela’s tongue ; : “Or, roaming, watch the 1umjnating theep >Recline in hurdled cotes to balmy fleep. When mounts Aurora in her gilded car, “Sweet goddefs |! ufher’d by the lucid far, When dewy myriads the green fields adorn, “And grateful odours hail the rofeate morn ; ‘How biefs’d to fee fair Flora fpread her fweets, And blithly frifk amidft her lov'd retreats. “T° imbibe the fragrance of her eflenc’d breath, From flow'ry arbors, or the blooming heath.: Such fcenesas thefe Saturnian days renew, And fweet Elyfium’s meads arife to view ! At this foft feafon may I {pend my days In calm reflection and poetic eafe, May gracious Heav’n to me the tafk affign To tend {weet flow'rs, or nurfe the fpreading vine, T° cxplore the beauties of the verdant fpring, ' And grateful praifes to its Author Gng. . comicbooks.com