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 expressing the effects of a fine day on the human heart.

Fat on the plain and mountain's sunny side Large droves of oxen and the fleecy flocks Feed undisturbed, and fill the echoing air With Music grateful to their Master's ear. The Traveller flops and gazes round and round O'er all the plains that animate his heart With Mirth and Music. Even the mendicant Bow-bent with age, that on the old gray stone Sole-sitting suns him in the public way, Feels his heart leap, and to himself he sings.

The expression "green radiance" is borrowed from Mr., a Poet whose versification is occasionally harsh and his diction too frequently obscure: but whom I deem unrivalled among the