Enrich me with the knowledge of thy works! A search, the flight of time can ne'er exhaust. In sluggish streams about my heart, forbid And whisper to my dreams. From Thee begin, and down he sinks Beneath the shelter of the shapeless drift, Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death. The subject proposed. Address to the Earl of Wilmington. First approach of Winter. According to the natural course of the season, various storms described. Rain. Wind. Snow. The driving of the snows: a man perishing among them; whence reflections on the wants and miseries of human life. The wolves descending from the Alps and Appenines. A winter evening described; as spent by philosophers; by the country people; in the city. Frost. A view of Winter within the polar circle. A thaw. The whole concluding with moral reflections on a future state. |