The naturalist's poetical companion, with notes, selected by E. Wilson

Two tyrant-seasons rule the wide domain

Scorch, with dry heat,—or drench, with floods of rain;
Now feverish herds rush maddening o'er the plains ;
And cool in shady streams their throbbing veins :
The birds drop lifeless from the silent spray,
And Nature faints beneath the fiery day.
Then bursts the deluge on the sinking shore,
And teeming Plenty empties all her store.

NATIONAL FLORAL EMBLEMS.

FULL white the Bourbon lily blows,
And fairer haughty England's rose ;
Nor shall unsung the symbol smile,
Green Ireland, of thy lovely isle.
In Scotland grows a warlike flower,
Too rough to bloom in lady's bower;
His crest, when high the soldier bears,
And spurs his courser on the spears,
Oh! there it blossoms-there it blows,-
The thistle's grown aboon the rose.

ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.

CREATION.

ALMIGHTY GOD, Thy power we sing!
And to Thy goodness tribute bring
For all Thy works of love;

Thy wisdom crowns Thy boundless might,
And kindness brings Thy truth to light,
As clear as orbs above.

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THE NATURALIST'S POETICAL COMPANION.

The universe Thy greatness shows,
And endless space Thy presence knows,
O wondrous, glorious GoD!

Thy finger marks the comet's sphere,
And countless orbs in full career

Pursue their various road.

Nor less the wonders of Thine hand,
Which, nearer view'd, our souls command
For grandeur shines in all;

The lightning's glare, the foaming deep,
The whirlwind's blast, the craggy steep,
Our trembling frames appal.

And wandering through this globe of earth,
On which unnumber'd tribes have birth,
In quick succession round,
We stop to gaze, but soon are lost
On seas of power creative toss'd;
The power without a bound.

How full the earth, and sea, and air!
How great Thy love! what constant care
Of all the host is shewn !

On great and small Thy bounty flows,
And all creation richly glows

With goodness all Thine own.

Time's Telescope, 1830.

The Poems marked with an Asterisk have Notes annexed to them.

Beauties in nature, 146.
Bee, elegy to a, 85.

-, the, 15.

the hive, 102.

-, to a, 155.

to a wild, 296.

Ophrys, 96.

Bee's winter retreat, 9.

*Beech-tree's petition, the, 191.
*Bell-flower, the, 61.
Bird, to a wounded, 215.
Birds, 20.

forbidden in Lev. xi., 57.
of passage, 59.

on the nestling of, 193.

*Black-thorn, the, 245.
Blossoms, to, 10.
*Blue-bird, the, 221.

Bramble, to

a, 60.

*Broom, the wild, 316.
―, the, 7.

Butterfly, the, 73, 237.
the blue-winged, 159.
to a, 27.

*Butterfly's birth-day, 385.
first flight, 99.

Cedars, 40.

*Celandine, to the small, 116.
*Cereus, the night-blownig, 354.
*Chaplets, the three, 368.
*Cistus, the gum, 360.

*Conflagration, an eastern, 381.
Contemplation on human knowledge,

32.

*Coral grove, the, 308.

insect, the, 375.

*Corn-crake, the, 48.
*Cowslip, the, 28, 256.

Creation, 411.

the glory of God in, 409.
Cricket, to a, 231.

to the, 97.

*Crocus, the Autumn, 388.
to a, 356.

*Crow, to the, 278.
*Cuckoo, the, 64, 358.

to the, 54.

- and Nightingale, 68.
Cypress, the, 366.

--wreath, the, 296.

*Daffodils, to, 273.
*Daisy in India, the, 49.

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*River, the rise and expanse of a, 13.
*Robin, to a, 322.

Rose hibiscus, the changing, 138.
the, 56, 177.

the Christmas, 400.
of Summer, the last, 229.
-, the withered, 343.
Rosemary, to the, 142.
Roses, the legacy of, 286.

the white and red, 101, 240.
Rosebud, on a blighted, 186.
Rural pleasures, 397.
--, sounds, 219.

Scotland, the flowers of, 94.
Sea, the, 248.

Sea-shore, thoughts on the, 346.
Seasons, the, 283.

*Shamrock, the, 209.

Shepherd, the, 328.

*Silk-worm, the, 63, 198.

*Sky-lark, the, 120, 351.
--, to the, 320.
*Snowdrop, the, 5.

-, to a, 222.
Sounds, rural, 219.
*Sparrow, the house, 259.

Spider, the, 157.

to a, 168.

-'s web, on taking a fly from a,

103.

*Spring, 24, 44, 115.
-, approach of, 276.
breathings of, 194.
flowers, 110, 171.
-, on a late, 203.
-, on the, 181.
return of, 200.
sudden effects of, 111.
the voice of, 188.
- journey, the, 196.

*Squirrel, the, 170.

hunt, the, 265.

*St. John's-wort, the, 106.

*Stream, the, 275.

Summer, 228.

evening, 121.

moods, 118.

the close of, 282.

Summer winds, 331.

*Sundew, to the round-leaved, 95.

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