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SPRING-DAY:

OR,

CONTEMPLATIONS

ON

SEVERAL OCCURRENCES

WHICH NATURALLY STRIKE THE EYE IN THAT

DELIGHTFUL 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 voice of the turtle is heard in
our land.
SONG II. 11, 12,

Edinburgh :

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,

BY JOHN MOIR, ROYAL BANK CLOSE;

SOLD BY OGLE AND AIKMAN, EDINBURGH;
WILLIAM SMITH, STATIONERS COURT; AND OGLE, GREAT TURN-STYLE,
LONDON; AND MANY OF THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS

IN GREAT BRITAIN.

1806.

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TO

LADY DOUGLAS

OF KELLHEAD.

1332

MADAM,

YOUR exemplary character for benevolence, with every other Christian virtue, so long the ornament of your worthy Ancestors, together with the honour of the Douglas Family, being so well known, anticipates any thing that might come from my pen on these subjects. All I have to observe is, that 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 appeareth so conspicuous in Spring, may bless you and yours, is the sincere wish of,

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