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Title: Lisy's parting with her cat
Author: Thomson, James
Date(s): 1716 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 10
Contents: Description of a girl leaving for boarding school (probably Thomson's sister
Elizabeth) sorrowfully taking leave of her pet cat, imagining the cat's own
lament at the separation
Title: From Thomson's Winter verse 300 etc
Author: Thomson, James
Attribution: Thomson
Date(s): 1725
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Extract from "Winter" (lines 217-22) from Thomson's "The Seasons", invoking God's assistance and guidance
Title: Hymn to the deity, line 40
Author: Thomson, James
Attribution: [Thomson]
Date(s): 1730 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Extracts from Thomson's "Hymn on the Seasons", viz. lines 32-75, 81-84, 98-end (text of editions of the 1730s), urging nature and all creation to join in praise of God