"There let the classic Page thy fancy lead / Thro rural Scenes; such as the Mantuan Swain / Paints in the matchless Harmony of Song. / Or catch thyself the Landskip, gliding swift / Athwart Imagination's vivid Eye."
Spring [from The Seasons (1746)]
See <u>The Seasons. By James Thomson.</u> (London: Printed [by Henry Woodfall] for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1746). 234 pp. &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3315865100&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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"Spring" was first published in 1728. Text revised and expanded between 1728 and 1746. Searching metaphors in <u>The Poetical Works</u> (1830) through Stanford HDIS interface, later 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>