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Show [ s6 J " Breathe :loft, ye Gales!". the fair CARLIN A cries, Bear on proad wings your V otrefs to the fkies. " I-Iow fweetly 1nutable yon orient hues, '' As l\1orn' s fair hand her 6pening rofes fl:rews ; IO 57 ] " Breathe foft, ye Zephyrs! hear my fervent :Gghs, " Bear on broad wings your V otrefs to the ikies !- Phune over plume in long divergent lines On whale-bone ribs the fair Mechanic joins; " How bright, when Iris blending n1any a ray, Inlays with eider down the :Glkcn firings, " Binds in etnbtoider'd wreath the brow of Day; And weaves in wide expanfe Da:dalian wings; " Soft, when the pendant Moon with lufrres pale Round her bold fons the waving pennons binds, " O'er heav;n;s blue arch unfurls her h1ilky veil; And walks with angcl-fl:ep upon the winds. " 'Vhile ftom the north long threads of filver light I 5 20 '' Dart on fwift fhuttles o' et the tHfued night f So on the :fhorelefs air the intrepid Gaul 2 5 Carli11a. I. 7. Carline ThifHe. Of the clafs Confederate Males. The feeds of this and of many other plants of the fame clafs are furnifhed with a plume, by which adinirable mechanilin they perform long aerial journies, croffing lakes and deferts, and are thus diffeminated far from the original plant, and have much the appearance of a Shuttlecock as they fly. The wings are of different confl:ruB:ion, fome being like a divergent tuft of hairs, others are br<>nched like feathers, fome are elevated from the crown of the feed by a flender foot-Halk, which gives them a very elegant appearance, others fit immediately on the crown of the feed. Nature has many other curious vegetable contrivances for the difperlion of feeds: fee note on ~dianthus. But perhaps none of t~em has n:ore the appearance of defigh than the adm~rable apparatus of Tillandfia for this purpofe. This plant grows on the branches of trees, like the miOeto, and never on the ground; the feeds are furnifhed ~{~th many long threads on their crowns ; which, as they are driven forwards by the ~vmds, wrap round the anns of trees, and thus hold them fall: till they vegetate. Thi-s IS very analogous to the migration of Spiders on the goffamer, who are faid to attach themfelve~ to the end of a long thread, and rife thus to the tops of trees or buildings, as the acctdental breezes carry them. . Launch' d the vaft concave of his buoyant ball.- J ourneying on high, the :Glkcn cafile glides Bright as a meteor through the azure tides ; O'er towns, and towers, and ten1plcs, wins it's way, Or n1ounts fubli1ne, and gilds the vault of day. 30 Silent with upturn' cl eyes un breathing crowds Purfue the Boating won~er to the clouds ; . And, flu{h' d with tranfport or benun1b' d with fear, Watch, as it rifcs, the diminiih' d fj)hcre. I |
