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Show CONTENTS. I. Subject proposed. Life, Love, and Sympathy I. :Four pas: ~ges, a fifth beo·inning 9. Invocation to Love 15. II. Bowers of }.uen, Adam an~l Eve 33. Temple of Nature 65. Time chained by Sculpture 75. Proteus bound by l\1enelaus 83. Bowers of Pleasure 89. School of Venus 97. Court of Pain 105. Den of Oblivion 113. Muse of Melancholy 121. .Cave of Trophonius 125. Shrine of Nature 129. Eleusinian lVIysteries 137. III. 1\Iorning 155. Procession of Virgins 159. Address to the Priestess 167. Descent of Orpheus into Hell 185. IV. Urania 205. GoD the 17irst Cause 923. Life began beneath the Sea 233. Repulsion, Attraction, Contraction, Life 235. Spontaneous Production of l\Iinute Animals 247. Irritation, Appetency 251. Life enlarges the Earth 2.65. Sensation, Volition, Association 269. Scene in the Microscope; :1\Iucor, Monas, Vibrio, Vorticella, Proteus, l\iite 281. V. Vegetables and Animals improve by Reproduction 295. Have all aTisen from l\ficroscopic Animalcules 303. Rocks of Shell and Coral 3 l 5. Islands and Continents raised by Earthquakes :321. Emigration of Animals from the Sea ~27. Trapa 335. Tadpole, Musquito 343. Diodon, Lizard, Beaver, Lamprey, Remora, \Vhale :35 I. Venus rising from the Sea, emblem of Organic Nature 371. All animals are first Aquatic 385. Fetus in the \Vomb 389. Animals from the ~furl of the Nile 401. The Hiero.phant and l\Iusc 491-450. CANTO I. PRODUCTION OF LIFE. I. BY firm in1mutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE,' Say, MusE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm· , Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains. Four past eventful Ages then recite, And give the fifth, new-born of Time, to light; 10 The silken tissue of their joys disclose, Swell with deep chords the murmur of their woes |