Note 502 — Chapter II · INDICATIONS OF A NEW ATTITUDE TOWARD NATURE IN THE POETRY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (continued 3)
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Ibid., I, 28. Cf. lines in the “Epistle to William Simson”:
Ev’n winter bleak has charms to me When winds rave thro’ the naked tree; Or frosts on hills of Ochiltree Are hoary gray; Or blinding drifts wild-furious flee Dark’ning the day! O Nature! a’ thy shews and forms To feeling, pensive hearts hae charms, Whether the summer kindly warms Wi’ life an’ light; Or winter howls, in gusty storms, The lang, dark night.