Indulgent nature! O dissolve this gloom!

Bind in eternal adamant the winds

That drown or wither: Give the genial west 270

To breathe, and in its turn the sprightly north:

And may once more the circling seasons rule

The year; not mix in every monstrous day.

Mean time, the moist malignity to shun

Of burthen’d skies; mark where the dry champain 275

Swells into chearful hills; where Marjoram

And Thyme, the love of bees, perfume the air;