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Show r ts6 J Dip their long treffes from the moffy brink, With tufted roots the glaffy currents drink ; Shade your cool man:G.ons from meridian bea1us, 5 45 And view their waving honours in your ftreams. " Thus where the veins their confluent branches bend, And milky eddies with the purple blend; The Chyle's white trunk, diverging from its fource, Seeks through the vital mafs its fhining courfe; 550 O'er each red cell, and tiifued membrane fpreads In living net-work all its branching threads; Maze within maze its tortuous path purfues, Winds into glands, inextricable clues ; Steals through the ftomach's velvet fides, and lips 555 The :G.lver [urges with a thoufand lips; Fills each fine pore, pervades each :flender hair, And drinks falubrious dew-drops from the air. " Thus when to kneel in Mecca's awful gloom, Or prefs with pious kifs Medina's tomb, 5 6o [ 157 ] League after· league, through many a lingering day, Steer the fwart Caravans their fultry way; 0' er fandy wafies on gafping camels toil, Or print with pilgrim-fteps the burning foil ; If from lone rocks a fparkling rill defcend, O'er the green brink the kneeling nations bend, Bathe the parch~d lip, and cool the feveriili tongue, And the clear lake refleCl:s the tningled throng." THE GoDDESS PAUSED,-the lifl:ening bands awhile Still feem to hear, and dwell upon her fmjle; 570 Then with foft 1nurmur f weep in lucid trains Down the green :flopes, and o'er the pebbly plains, To each bright fiream on :Giver fand~ls glide, Re.fleaive fountain, and tumultuous tide. So :lhoot the: Spider-broods at breezy dawn, Their glittering net-work o'er the autumnal lawn; From blade. to blade connect with cordage fine The unbending grafs, and live along the line ; 575 |