... And feast on hips and blackberries wid, As truant gay; Or eager plunge in cool pe lucid stream, Heedless, that Summer’s sultry day is fled ; . Ox muse, as breathes the flute, the rural theme, Such theme as fancy’s song may yet bestead ; Ir stretch’d at ...

... stunted shoots of the mountain ash [sorbus aucuparia]} make their appearance. The juni- per bush is here very common. ‘The black-berried beath grum), and the blaeberry bush (vac- cinium myrtillus), are also abundant. The berries of these two last are ga- thered ...