in conjunction with a in Scorpio, at in the morning of the 8th; with 6 in m. past 8 in the morning of the 22d; Leo, at 38 m. after 2 in the morning of rs will be in conjunction with a in Leo d the planet will then be 45' north of rcury will be in his superior conjunction midnight of the 14th; and he will also tion with Jupiter on the 10th, the foring then 23' north of the latter. Vein her greatest elongation on the 19th; I be in quadrature at 7 in the evening

· Naturalist's Diary

For MAY 1822.

e, fairest nymph, resume thy reign!
all the Graces in thy train!
■balmy breath, and flowery tread,
from thy soft ambrosial bed;
re, in Elysian slumber bound,
-ow'ring myrtles veil thee round.
ke, in all thy glories dressed;
al the Zephyrs from the West:
tore the Sun, revive the skies :
nine, and Nature's call, arise!
at Nature's self upbraids thy stay,
misses her accustomed MAY.
! all her works demand thy aid;
e labours of Pomona fade:
plaint is heard from ev'ry tree;
ch budding flow'ret calls for thee;
e birds forget to love and sing ;-
th storms alone the forests ring.

me then, with Pleasure at thy side,
ffuse thy vernal spirit wide;

eate, where'er thou turn❜st thy eye, eace, Plenty, Love, and Harmony; ll ev'ry being share its part,

nd Heav'n and Earth be glad at heart.

vocation was written by MR. WEST, the Gray the poet, eighty years ago, and af

ctures to living au

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our high ours and

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The very seasons meet, flinging the buds of spring

Into the lap of summer.

This month, in favourable seasons, is bright with sunshine, and fragrant with perfumes, covering the meadows with verdure and decking the gardens with all the mixtures of colorific radiance; a month from which the man of fancy draws new effusions of imagery, and the naturalist new scenes of observation.

and the smooth-shaven elastic lawns are smothered with lilacs and laburnums; the bees hum about the clover and sweet peas, and the early birds shake away the moisture from the young twigs in a rory

shower'.

The recurrence of Spring brings with it recollections of past happiness, and of the pleasant days of youth, which, like snow upon a river,' are melted away from our grasp, but which imagination still

'See our last volume, pp. 150-152, some remarks on the indifference to the beauties of the country, and all the charms of rural life, manifested by those who have been long accustomed to dwell among the busy hum of men;' who think Greenwich Park not equal to Fleet Street; and prefer the smell of a flambeau at the theatre to the fragrance of a May evening in the country; and the screams of violins to

the rich harmony of nightingales

hopes an udes and self, as I hear

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me, mo

without te scorn

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name t gliding groves leaden

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poet.

in the most gay and vivid colours. -r, in the following eloquent apostrophe of his early enjoyments, warm from

faithful to its fires-admirably disghty power of past events over our uture happiness, in that longing, linwhich we cast back to the scenes of our woods that crown the clear lone brow of rt, why do I revisit ye so oft, and feel a sciousness of your prescnce, but that ps waving in the wind recal to me the ars that are for ever fled; that ye renew murmurs the story of long-cherished itter disappointment; that in your soligled wilds I can wander and lose mynder on and am lost in the solitude of my and that, as your rustling branches give the waste below, borne on the thoughts rs, I can look down with patient anguish erless desolation which I feel within! t face pale as the primrose with hyacinfor ever shunning and for ever haunting g my waking thoughts as in a dream; smile which my heart could never turn ithout those eyes dark with their own bent on mine, and drawing the soul into mazes like a sea of love; without that bling in fancy's ear; without that form Fore me like Oread or Dryad in fabled at should I do, how pass away the listless ted hours? Then wave, wave on, ye woods y, and lift your high tops in the air; my ows, uttered by your mystic voice, breathe former being, and enable me to bear the !

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THO to When violets blue and white, and primrose pale,ring
Toro Like callow nestlings 'neath their mother's wing,
sfoot Each peeped from under the broad leaf's green veil, orro
When streams looked blue; and thin clouds clustering
O'er the wide empyrean did prevail,

pillo Rising like incense from the breathing world,
Wore Whose gracious aspect was with dew impearled.
When a soft moisture, steaming every where,

To the earth's countenance mellower hues imparted;

When sylvan choristers self-poised in air,

Or perched on boughs, in shrilly quiv'rings darted
Their little raptures forth; when the warm glare

(While glancing lights backwards and forwards started, 77
As if with meteors silver-sheathed 'twere flooded) sh
Sultry and silent, on the hill's turf brooded.
Oh, in these moments we such joy have felt,
As if the earth were nothing but a shrine;

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From insect's drowsy hum, that all my powers
Would baffle to pourtray! Let them that live

In vacant solitude, speak from their bowers
What nameless pleasures lettered ease may cheer,
Thee, Nature! blessed to mark with eye and ear!
Who can have watched the wild rose' blushing dye,
4. And seen what treasures its rich cups contain;
Who, of soft shades the fine variety,

From W

white to deepest flush of vermeil stain?
impearled with dewdrop's radiancy,
Its petals breathed perfume, while he did strain

when

His very being, lest the sense should fail
Timbibe each sweet its beauties did exhale?

es on eve of summer days,

p browse, could the thicket's wealth behold? honeysuckle's bowery maze?

ush, with its vegetable gold? sheath that helps to raise ve's cone, the figures manifold dainty exquisiteness wrought?— at thoughtful love they all have taught? wslip, each have to them givenanemone, the strawberry wild, nassus, meek as star of even ;the bright'ning eye of smiling child, in blue transparency of heaven, the primrose pale, and mild;— of which to speak no tongue is able) nion incommunicable1!

pecies of the summer birds of passage he beginning of this month. Among goatsucker, or fern-owl (caprimulgus he spotted fly-catcher (muscicapa grisedge-bird (motacilla salicaria). "In llowing month, the dotterel is in season. that are in general strangers to Engnally visit its shores and groves. The ble among these are the little peterel, ne green woodpecker, and the golden-. n. Mr. Carew has observed, that, in lock of curious birds found their way Il about the time of harvest, which, destructive to the apples. They were ze of the swallow, but were rendered by the peculiar formation of their bills, extremities were terminated by a transfrom which they obtained the name of Seizing on an apple, this bird would vide it into two parts, and, eating the , proceed to the destruction of another. st appearance they caused great alarm, onsidered as presages of some impending In the parish of Madern, in the year 1807, Desultory Thoughts, by Charles Lloyd, 12mo.