 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...in 1730 with "Winter," which was later used as the first book of The Seasons. A HYMN ON THE SEASONS These, as they change, Almighty Father! these Are...Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tendemess and love. Wide flush the fields; the softening air is balm; Echo the mountains round; the... | |
 | Richard Terry, Reader in Eighteenth-Century English Literature Richard Terry - 2000 - 300 pages
...Shaftesburian deism finds its most sustained expression. In the opening lines the poet declares of the seasons, 'These, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER! these,/ Are but the VARIED GOD' — the emphatic repetition of 'these', placed at the beginning and end of the opening line, contributing to... | |
 | G. Gabrielle Starr - 2004 - 318 pages
...or the moral music of nature. As he describes his subject in the concluding "A Hymn on the Seasons," These, as they change, Almighty Father! these Are...but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee . . . (11. 1-3) Mysterious round! what skill, what force divine, Deep-felt in these appear! a simple... | |
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THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round... 
