Not a difficult thing to foretell 861 167. Curiosities of Medical Experience 862 168. Retirement 862 169. Costumes for November 863 170. Opera Dress 864 171. Head-Dresses and Caps 864 HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. NO. XIII.--JUNE, 1851.--VOL. III. SUMMER. BY JAMES THOMSON [Illustration: Refulgent Summer comes] From brightening fields of ether fair-disclos'd, Child of the sun, refulgent SUMMER comes, In pride of youth, and felt through nature's depth: He comes attended by the sultry hours, And ever-fanning breezes, on his way; While, from his ardent look, the turning Spring Averts her blushful face; and earth, and skies, All-smiling, to his hot dominion leaves. Hence, let me haste into the mid wood shade, Where scarce a sunbeam wanders through the gloom And on the dark-green grass, beside the brink Of haunted stream, that by the roots of oak Rolls o'er the rocky channel, lie at large, And sing the glories of the circling year. Come, Inspiration! from thy hermit-seat, By mortal seldom found: may fancy dare, From thy fix'd serious eye, and raptur'd glance Shot on surrounding heaven, to steal one look Creative of the poet, every power Exalting to an ecstasy of soul. And thou, my youthful muse's early friend, In whom the human graces all unite; Pure light of mind, and tenderness of heart; Genius and wisdom; the gay social sense, By decency chastis'd; goodness and wit, In seldom-meeting harmony combin'd; Unblemish'd honor, and an active zeal For Britain's glory, liberty, and man: O Dodington! attend my rural song, Stoop to my theme, inspirit every line, And teach me to deserve thy just applause. With what an awful world-revolving power Were first the unwieldy planets launch'd along The illimitable void! thus to remain, Amid the flux of many thousand years, That oft has swept the toiling race of men And all their labor'd monuments away, Firm, unremitting, matchless, in their course, To the kind-temper'd change of night and day, And of the Seasons ever stealing round, Minutely faithful: such the All-perfect Hand That pois'd, impels, and rules the steady whole.