SPRING-DAY:

OR,

CONTEMPLATIONS

ON

SEVERAL OCCURRENCES,

WHICH

NATURALLY STRIKE THE EYE IN THAT DELIGHT-
FUL SEASON.

BY JAMES FISHER.

I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

PSALM LXXVII. 12.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on
the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the
beard in our land.

voice of the turtle is
SONG II. II, 12.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY THOMAS TURNBULL, FOR THE AUTHOR ;

AND SOLD BY MANY OF THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS IN

GREAT BRITAIN.

MDCCCIII.

ENTERED IN STATIONERS HALL,

ACCORDING TO ACT OF PARLIAMENT.

то

LADY DOUGLASS OF KELLHEAD,

MADAM,

YOUR exemplary character for benevolence, with every other Christian virtue, so long the boast of your worthy ancestors, together with the honour of the Douglass Family being so well known, anticipates any thing that might come from my pen on these subjects. All I have to observe is, I think myself highly honoured in being allowed to dedicate the following sheets to your Ladyship; which, next to Divine Providence, I commit to your patronage. And that that Almighty Being whose goodness appears so conspicuous in Spring, may bless you and yours, is the sincere wish of,

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