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I. WINTER.
The absence of the sun gives place to colds;
Earth's pores are stopp'd by chilling frosts, and holds
All vegetables pris'ners in her womb:
All Nature wears an universal gloom.
The ice o'erspreads the rivers, ponds and lakes;
The bleating flocks with scanty food inlakes.
When hills and vales with woolly snows are clad,
And storms and tempests all the plains invade,
The human race are forc'd to tend the fires,
And cattle feeds, imprisoned in byres,
Upon the product of their former toil,
Till Sol's approach make nature 'gin to smile.
Earth's pores are stopp'd by chilling frosts, and holds
All vegetables pris'ners in her womb:
All Nature wears an universal gloom.
The ice o'erspreads the rivers, ponds and lakes;
The bleating flocks with scanty food inlakes.
When hills and vales with woolly snows are clad,
And storms and tempests all the plains invade,
The human race are forc'd to tend the fires,
And cattle feeds, imprisoned in byres,
Upon the product of their former toil,
Till Sol's approach make nature 'gin to smile.
Thus, like to winter, is our infancy;
We've no perfection; can do nought but cry,
Under the load of our first parents' guilt;
An heavy burden, too too seldom felt.
Unless the Sun of Righteousness diffuse
His influence into our souls, we chuse
To entertain bleak Winter all our days,
And have no Spring, except iniquities.
We've no perfection; can do nought but cry,
Under the load of our first parents' guilt;
An heavy burden, too too seldom felt.
Unless the Sun of Righteousness diffuse
His influence into our souls, we chuse
To entertain bleak Winter all our days,
And have no Spring, except iniquities.
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