...fluttering wing, And shriller sound declare extreme distress, And ask the helping hospitable hand. 280 RESOUNDS the living surface of the ground : Nor undelightful is the ceaseless hum, To him who muses thro' the woods at noon ; Or drowsy shepherd, as he lies reclin'd, With half-shut eyes, beneath the...

...Resounds the living surface of the ground : Nor undclightful is the ceaseless hum , To him who muses thro' the woods at noon ; Or drowsy shepherd, as he lies reclin'd , With half -shut eyes , beneath the floating shade Of willows grey, close- crouding o'er the brook. Gradua1,...

...the fluttering wing And shriller sound declare extreme distress, And ask the helping hospitable hand. Resounds the living surface of the ground : Nor undelightful...eyes, beneath the floating shade Of willows grey, close-crowding o'er the brook. Gradual, from these what numerous kinds descend, Evading even the microscopic...

...flutt'ring wing, And shriller sound, declare extreme distress, And ask the helping hospitable hand. Resounds the living surface of the ground : Nor undelightful...eyes, beneath the floating shade Of willows grey, close-crowding o'er the brook. Gradual, from these what num'rous kinds de» scend, Evading e'en the...

...-the fluttering wing And shriller sound declare extreme distress, And ask the helping hospitable hand. Resounds the living surface of the ground: Nor undelightful...eyes, beneath the floating shade Of willows grey, close-crowding o'er the brook. Gradual, from these what numerous kinds descend, Evading even the microscopic...

...fluttering wing, And shriller sound declare extreme distress, And ask the helping hospitahle hand. Resounds the living surface of the ground : Nor undelightful...the woods at noon ; Or drowsy shepherd, as he lies recliD'd, • C2 With half-shut eyes heneath the floating shade Of willows grey, close-crowding o'er...

...fluttering wing , And shriller sound declare extreme distress , And ask the helping hospitable hand. Resounds the living surface of the ground : Nor undelightful is the ceaseless hum , To him who muses thro' the woods at noon ; Or drowsy shepherd , as he lies reclin'd , With half-shut eye s , beneath...

...fluttering wing And shriller sound declare extreme distress, And ask the helping hospitable hand. 280 Resounds the living surface of the ground : Nor undelightful...reclin'd, With half-shut eyes, beneath the floating shade 285 Of willows grey, close crowding o'er the brook. Full Nature swarms with life ; one wondrous mass...

...Oft, inadvertent from the milky stream They meet their fate, or welt'ring in the bowl, With powerless wings around them wrap'd, expire. Resounds the living...noon, Or drowsy shepherd as he lies reclin'd, With half shut eyes beneath the floating shade Of willows grey, close crowding o'er the brook. Gradual from...

...* the noon of a summer's day : as attendants of the evening, indeed, they have been mentioned; , i Resounds the living surface of the ground : Nor undelightful...shepherd, as he lies reclin'd With half-shut eyes.* / But the novelty and nature we admire in the descriptions of Thomson, are by no means his only excellencies...