The Seasons of the Year. [With Plates.]1858 - 22 pages |
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amid analogy animals appear apple-tree attractions Autumn beauty become bee-hive believer's beneficence bids blessed blight bloom blossoms body bounties branch budding chaffinch chrysalis cold contemplate copious cornucopia creatures crocus cushet decay drones drop dwell earth emblem enjoyment Esquimaux exhaustless exquisite feelers flowers fruit gathering gaze genial germ gladdens glanced glory grace granary green happiness harbingers heavenly hibernate hive husbandman insect Ireland joy to joy land leaf leafless let us single liberal throws Lichens little abode Lord meditative mind microscope migration naked eye nature nest nipping frost numbers nurse-bees once pass peculiarities of Summer plants prepared proclaimed profusion promise promise-a rejoice resurrection rich rigour ripe scene season of Spring seed seems singing of birds snow huts sower sown spiritual Stalks With measured storms swallow sweet things thou art thou sowest throws the grain torpid torpor tree true valleys vegetation verdure Winter wonders yellow
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Page 1 - The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Page 11 - Wide flush the fields; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round; the forest smiles; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes thy glory in the summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Page 22 - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating his loss with added hours Of social converse and instructive ease, And...
Page 14 - He is the joyous prophet of the year — the harbinger of the best season: he lives a life of enjoyment amongst the loveliest forms of nature : winter is unknown to him; and he leaves the green meadows of England in autumn, for the myrtle and orange groves of Italy, and for the palms of Africa: — he has always objects of pursuit, and his success is secure.
Page 16 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 11 - ... while the Earth remaineth seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 6 - God said, let the earth bring .forth grass, the herb yielding- seed, and the fruittree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed was in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 7 - Of sweetbriar hedges I pursue my walk ; Or taste the smell of dairy ; or ascend Some eminence, Augusta, in thy plains, And see the country far diffused around, One boundless blush, one white empurpled shower Of mingled blossoms, where the raptured eye Hurries from joy to joy ; and, hid beneath The fair profusion, yellow Autumn spies...
Page 22 - Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.
Page 7 - And WINTER oft at Eve resumes the Breeze, Chills the pale Morn, and bids his driving Sleets Deform the Day delightless...