...Baffle the raging year, and fill their pens With food at will; lodge them below the storm, And watch them strict; for from the bellowing east, In this...whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains At one wide waft, and o'er the hapless flocks, Hid in the hollow of two neighb'ring hills, The billowy...

...Baffle the raging year, and fill their pens With food at will; lodge them below the storm, And watch them strict : for from the bellowing east, In this...whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains At one wide waft, and o•er the hapless flocks, Hid in the hollow of two neighbouring hills, The billowy...

...Baffle the raging year, and fill their pens With food at will; lodge them below the storm, And watch them strict: for from the bellowing east, In this...whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains At one wide waft, and o'er the hapless Rocks, Hid in the hollow of two neighbouring hills, The billowy...

...east , Iii this dire season , oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burthen of whole wintry plains At one wide waft , and o'er the hapless flocks , Hid...hills , The billowy tempest whelms ; 'till, upward urg'd ,. The valley to a shining mountain swells , Tipt with a wreath high curling in the sky. As thus...

...lodge them below the ftorm, And watch them ftriA : for from the bellowing eaft, In this dire fcafon, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains At one wide waft,, and o'er the haplefs flocks, Hid in the hollow of two neighbouring hills, The billowy...

...their pens With food at will, lodge them helow the storm, And watch them strict; for from the hellowing east, In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the hurden of whole wint'ry plains At one wide waft, and o'er the hapless flocks, Hid in the hollow of...

...the raging year, and fill their pens 266 With food at will ; lodge them below the storm, And watch them strict ; for from the bellowing East, In this...dire season, oft' the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burthen of whole wintry plains 270 At one wide waft, and o'er the hapless flocks, Hid in the hollow...

...Baffle the raging year, and fill their pens With food, at will : lodge them below the storm,* And watch them strict ; for, from the bellowing east, In this...dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burthen of whole wintry plains In one fierce blast, and o'er th' unhappy flocks, Hid f in the hollow...

...Baffle the raging year, and fill their pens 266 With food at will; lodge them below the storm, And watch them strict: for from the bellowing east, In this...dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burthen of whole wintry plains 270 At one wide waft, and o'er the hapless flocks, Hid in the hollow...

...described by Thomson : — " Oft the whirlwind's wing " Sweeps up the burthen of whole wintry plains ', At one wide waft ; and o'er the hapless flocks, "...neighbouring hills, " The billowy tempest whelms." . There have been instances where Sheep, at the approach of a storm, have fled for shelter to a neighbouring...