[5] Spring and Autumn are hardly known to the Laplanders. About the time the Sun enters Cancer, their fields which a week before were covered with snow, appear on a sudden full of grass and flowers.—Scheffer's History of Lapland, p. 16.


THE MINSTREL.
BOOK II.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam,
Rectique cultus pectora roborant. HORAT.


THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS.
BOOK II.

I.