The beautiful Description of the Swine and Pigs feeding on fallen Acorns reminds me of a most picturesque one, not now at hand, in GILPIN on Forest Scenery.
The turn of this thought,
Say not, I'll come and cheer thy gloomy cell.
III. v. 241, &c.
I believe is from Scripture. Prov. iii. 28. And so I think certainly is that,
'Till Folly's wages, wounds and thorns, they reap.
III. 37.
But the most remarkable of all, and where I had no expectation of finding a similitude, is in near the close of the Winter.
Far yet above these wafted clouds are seen
(In a remoter sky yet more serene)
Others, detach'd in ranges through the air,
Spotless as snow, and countless as they're fair;
Scatter'd immensely wide from east to west,
The beauteous semblance of a Flock at rest.