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Show With lenient words her virgin fears difarms, And clafps the yielding Beauty in his arms ; Whence Kings and Heroes own illufirious birth, Guards of mankind, and demigods on earth. 270 VII. "GNoMEs ! as you pafs' d beneath the labouring foil, The guards and guides of Nature's chemic toil, You faw, deep-fepulchred in duiky realn1s, Which Earth's rock-ribbed ponderous vault o'erwheln1s, With felf-born fires the mafs fermentino- glow 0 , 275 And flame-wing' d fulphurs quit the earths below. 1. " HENCE ductile CLAYs in wide expanfion fpread, Soft as the Cygnet's down, their fnow-white bed . ' W ith felf-born fires. I. 27 5· After the accumulation of plains and· · h calcareous k · h' h mountams on t e ro~ s or gramte w lC had been previoufly raifed by volcanic fires, a fecond fet of volcanrc fires were produced by the fermentation of this new mafs wh' h f ter the faits or acids and iron had been walhed away in part b el . . '. lC a - fulphurous parts which were infoluble in water. wh y ~~~latwn, dlffipat~d the earths were left in fome places; in others, bitume~ bec:~~e r:~rilm:~e~~st and lihceous of the flratum, producing coals of various deg f . he upper part rees o punty. Hence duC/ik clays. I. 277. Sec additional notes, No. XX. [ ss J With yielding flakes fucceffive forms reveal, And change obedient to the whirling wheel. Firfl: CHIN A's fons, with early art elate, Form' d the gay tea-pot, and the piClured plate ; Saw with illun1in' d brow and dazzled eyes In the red fiove vitrefcent colours rife ; Speck' d her tall beakers with enamel' d fl:ars, Her monfl:er-joifes, and gigantic jars ; Smear' d her huge dragons with metallic hues, With golden purples, and cobaltic blues; Bade on wide hills her porcelain cafHes glare, And glazed Pagodas tremble in the air. ,, ETRURIA r next beneath thy magic hands Glides the quick wheel, the plafl:ic clay expands,. S . h 'll . 'd brow 1 "83 No colour is difl:inguilhable in the red-hot kiln aw wzt t umm · · ~ · · hich b but the red itfelf, till the workman introduces a fm~ll ple~e o[ dry wood, w y d pro uc.w g a w h'lte flame renders all the oth6r colours vlfible m a moment . /Pith golden purples. 1. :288. See addition:~.! notes, No. XXI. Etruria! next. 1. 291. Etruria m:t.y perhaps vi e with China itfelf .in the antiquit~:: its arts. The times of its greatefl: fplendour were prior to the foundatwns of Rome, |
