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(1789) [MARC] Author: Matthew Consett
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6¢ ATOUR THROUGH

Far off the keen terrors of Winter retire, MSs
- And the North’s dancing Streamers relinquifh their fire

The Sun’s genial beams {well the bud on the tree,

And Enna chaunts forth her wild warblings with glee:

The Rein-deer, unliarnefs’d’in freedom fhall play.”
And fafely o’er Odon’s fteep precipice ftray ;~
The Wolf tothe Foreft’s receffes fhall fly

» And howl to the moon as fhe glides thro*the fky. —

Then hafte, my fair Luah, Oh! hafte tothe Grove, -

And pafs the fweet Seafon in rapture and love ; :

In Youth let our bofoms in Extacy glow
For the winter. of Life ne’er. atranfport can know.

With refpe& to religion. I’m affraid the Laplanders have
yet much to learn; though like every other quarter of
the Globe, Knowledge is making gradual advances even
here. The high Laps, as they are called, that is, thofe
who inhabit the mountains, have not yet quite forgot their

original Paganifm, notwithftanding the great pains which
the

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