And all their various symbols flourish’d here.

XXXIII.

First came the Spring, led by the rosy Hours,

With all the Loves and Graces in her train;

Deck’d with her wreath of never-fading flow’rs,

Diffusing odours o’er the smiling plain.

XXXIV.

Next Summer came; his cheeks with ardour fir’d,

With his own blushing fruits and harvests crown’d;

Before whose face the infant Spring retir’d,