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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