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 MI$CELLAIq EOU$ POEMS. Slop'd, or, with abrupt abyss, Scoop'd into chalky precipice, Bare, or with plenteous stores embost, Smooth, or with long enclosures crost, Innumerous rise the hills around; Closes the landscpe's farthest bound Their undulating outline, given Distinct upon the verge of Heaven. O'er all expands yon cope of sky, How grand, howvast, a canopy ! Above, of deep cerulean hue, Declining low to palest' blue, And, on the boundary of the sight, Melting into liquid white. Brooding dark storms, no envious cloud �O'er the clear azure spreads its shroud, Save, half-transparent, when they fleet, Light as' thin flakes of wandering sleet, And 'seem to Fancy's gze afar Some viewless sprite's a'drial car. How loves the eye beneath to rove From hedge to hedge, from grove to grove, O'er fields, with corn--with pasture, green, And many a stripe of heath between; Churches, and villas, spires, and towers, Peeping from forth their native bowers, 121 ......... Google

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