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B. I. To breathe, and in its turn the sprightly north: And may once more the circling seasons rule The year; not mix in every monstrous day.


 * Mean time, the moist malignity to shun

Of burthen'd skies; mark where the dry champain Swells into chearful hills; where Marjoram And Thyme, the love of bees, perfume the air; And where the Cynorrhodon with the rose For fragrance vies; for in the thirsty soil Most fragrant breathe the aromatic tribes. There bid thy roofs high on the basking steep Ascend, there light thy hospitable fires. And let them see the winter morn arise, The summer evening blushing in the west; While with umbrageous oaks the ridge behind O'erhung, defends you from the blust'ring north, Rh