The Poetical Works of Anna Seward With Extracts from her Literary Correspondence. Edited by Walter Scott ... In Three Volumes |
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On the river's shady sideWhite his gather'd flock appears,
And, plung'd into the flashing tide,
Their curl'd and snowy fleece he shears;
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Majestic Autumn rears her placid head,
Wreath'd with wheaten garlands yellow,
Bearing various fruitage mellow,
How gladly from the trees, that loaded stand,
Shakes he the ripen'd pears, engrafted by his hand;
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Or his swelling grapes, that vieWith the fleece of Tyrian stain!
Such precious gifts his grateful cares supply
To thee protector of his wide domain,
Bounteous Sylvanus!—and to thee,
The garden's watchful Deity;
Beneath your favouring power he little cares
Who wields the Lictor's rod, or who the fasces bears.
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