"Turn we a moment Fancy's rapid flight / To vigorous soils, and climes of fair extent; / Where, by the potent sun elated high, / The vineyard swells refulgent on the day; / Spreads o'er the vale; or up the mountain climbs, / Profuse; and drinks amid the sunny rocks, / From cliff to cliff increased, the heighten'd blaze. / Low bend the weighty boughs."
Autumn [from The Seasons (1730)]
Text revised between 1730 and 1746. Searching text from <u>The Poetical Works</u> (1830), checked against earlier editions. Also reading James Sambrook's edition of <u>The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence</u> (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), which reproduces the 1746 edition of Thomson's poem.<br>
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