ARGUMENT of the SIXTH Book. Bells at a distance.-Their effect.-A fine noon in winter. -A fheltered walk.-Meditation better than books.Our familiarity with the course of nature makes it appear lefs wonderful than it is.-The transformation that spring effects in a fhrubbery defcribed.—A mistake concerning the course of nature corrected.-God maintains it by an unremitted act. The amusements fashionable at this hour of the day reproved.-Animals happy, a delightful fight. - Origin of cruelty to animals.-That it is a great crime preved from fcripture. -That proof illuftrated by a tale. A line drawn between the lawful and unlawful deftruction of them. -Their good and useful properties infifted on.-Apology for the encomiums bestowed by the author on animals.Inftances of man's extravagant praise of man. The groans of the creation fhall have an end.-A view taken of the restoration of all things. — An Invocation and an Invitation of him who fhall bring it to pass.The retired man vindicated from the charge of ufeleffness. -Conclufion. THE T A S K. BOOK VI. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON. THERE is in fouls a sympathy with founds, In cadence fweet! now dying all away, With eafy force it opens all the cells Where mem'ry flept. Wherever I have heard A kindred melody, the fcene recurs, And with it all its pleasures and its pains. Such comprehensive views the spirit takes, It seem'd not always fhort; the rugged path, How readily we wish time fpent revok'd, We mifs'd that happiness we might have found! When |