The Natural History of the Year : Being An Enlargement of Dr. Aikin's Calendar of Nature
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Darwin. May has ever been the favourite month in the year for poetical defcrip- tion, but the praifes originally lavifhed upon it were uttered in climates more fouthern M A T. &o fouthern than our own. In fuch it really unites all the foft beauties of fpring with the radiance of fummer, and poflbfTes warmth enough to cheer and invigorate, without overpowering. With us, efpe- cially fince we have reckoned by the new flyle, great part of the month is yet too chill for a perfedt. enjoyment of the ...charms of nature, and frequent injury is fuftained by the flowers and young fruits during its courfe, from blights and blaft- ing winds. May-day, though (till ob- ferved as a rural feilival, has often little pleafure to beftow except that arifing from the name, while the fcanty garlands compofed in honour of the day, rather dis- play the immature infancy than the luxu- riant youth of the year. In a very ele- gant poem, entitled, The Tears of Old May Day, this newer rival is thus defcribed : Nor wonder, man, that Nature's bafhful face, And opening charms her rude embraces fear : Is fhe not fprung of April's wayward race, The fickly daughter of th* unripen'd year ?
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