Was blest with such an evening shower!”
What a curious felicity about the repetition of “drink” in the fourth line.
“Isaac’s Marriage” is one of the best of the pieces, but is too long for insertion.
“The Rainbow”
has seldom been better sung:
“Still young and fine! but what is still in view
We slight as old and soil’d, though fresh and new.
How bright wert thou, when Shem’s admiring eye
Thy burnisht, flaming Arch did first descry!
When Terah, Nahor, Haran, Abram, Lot,