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Show [ 82 J Firft her f weet eyes his Eagle-form beguiles, And HEBE feeds him vrith ambrofial fmiles; Next the chang'd God a Cygnet's down affutnes, And playful LEDA fn1ooths his gloify plumes; Then glides a filver ferpent, treacherous gue{l:! And fair OLYMPIA folds him in her breafi; Now lows a milk-white Bull on Afric's fl:rand~ And crops with dancing head the dajfy'd land.Wjth rofy wreathes EuRoPA's hand adorns His fringed forehead, and his pearly horns ; Light on his back the fportive Damfel bounds, And pleafed he moves along the flowery grounds ; Bears with :flow ll:ep his beauteous prize aloof, Dips in the lucid flood his ivory hoof; rfhen wets his velvet knees, a·ncl wading laves. I-Iis filky fides a1nid the din1pling waves. 235. 245 the nitrous acid from pure air and phlogiftic air, or azote; and carbonic acid) (or fixed air,) from pure air and charcoal. Some of thefe affinities were perhaps portrayed by the Magi of Egypt, who were probably learned in chemiftry, in their hieroglyphic pitlures before the invention of letters, by the loves of Jupiter with terrefhialladies •. And thus phyfically as well as metaphyficall y might be faid" J ovis omnia plena.:' : ( 83 J While her fond train with beckoning hands d~plore, Strain their blue eyes, and iliriek along the ihore ; Beneath her robe ilie draws her fnowy feet, And, half-reclining on her ermine feat, Round his raifed neck her radiant arms ihe throws, And refis her fair cheek on his curled brows; Her yellow treifes wave on wanton gales, And bent in air her azure mantle fails. -Onward He moves, applauding Cupids guide, 2 55 And fkim on fbooting wing the fhining tide ; Emerging Tritons leave their coral caves, Sound their loud conchs, and f1nooth the circling waves, Surround the timorous Beauty, as fbe fwims, And O'aze enamour' d on her filver litnbs. 2 6o b Now Europe's ihadowy ihores with loud acclaim, Hail the fair fugitive, and ihout her name ; Soft echoes warble, whifpering forefis nod, .And confcious Nature owns the prefent God. Changed from the Bull, the rapturous God aifun1c. , Immortal youth, with glow celefiial blo01ns 266 M '2 |