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GRAY'S POEMS.
The Attic warbler pours her throat, 5
Responsive to the cuckoo's note,
The untaught harmony of spring:
While, whisp'ring pleasure as they fly,
Cool Zephyrs thro' the clear blue sky
Their gather'd fragrance fling. 10
Responsive to the cuckoo's note,
The untaught harmony of spring:
While, whisp'ring pleasure as they fly,
Cool Zephyrs thro' the clear blue sky
Their gather'd fragrance fling. 10
Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch
A broader browner shade,
Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech
O'er-canopies the glade,
Beside some water's rushy brink 15
With me the Muse shall sit, and think
A broader browner shade,
Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech
O'er-canopies the glade,
Beside some water's rushy brink 15
With me the Muse shall sit, and think
Notes
- ↑ V. 5. Martial. Epig. i. 54: "Sic ubi multisona fervet sacer Atthide lueus." Also in the Epitaphium Athenaidos apud Fabrettum, p. 702: "Cum te, nate, fleo, planctus dabit Attica Aedon." And "Attica volucris." Propert. II. xvi.
- ↑ 6. Ovid. Halieut, v. 110: "Atrica aris vernà sub tempestate queratus." Add Seneca Here. Œt. v. 200. And Milton. Par. R. iv, 245: The Attic bird trills her thickwarbled notes," The expression pours her throat" is from Pope. Essay on Man, iii. 33: Is it for thee the linnet pours her throat?" So Ovid, Trist. iii. 12. 8. " Indocilique loquax gutture vernat avis,"
- ↑ V. 7.—"The symphony of Spring."-"The hollow Cuckoo sings Thoms. Spring, Luke.
- ↑ V. 10. —Fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods." Par. L. viii. 515. v. Comus. v. 989. and P. L. iv. 327. "Cool zephyr." Luke.
- ↑ V. 12. Milton. Par. L., iv. 246: "T'he unpiere'd shade
omnia." Also in the Pervigil. Vener. v. 13: "Ipsa gemmis purpurantem pingit annum floribus." Pope bas the same expression in his Past. i. 28: "And lavish Nature paints the purple year." "Gales that wake the purple year." Mallet. Zephyr.