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Show ( I 4-8 ] Seen at the opening fafh with bofo1n bare, With wringing hands, and dark di:fhevel' d hair, The blu:fhing Bride with wild diforder' d charms Round her fond lover winds her ivory anns ; 435 Beat, as they clafp, their throbbing hearts with fear, And many a kifs is mixed with many a tear ;-- 440 Ah me! in vain the labouring engines pour Round their pale litnbs the ineffeaualiliower !- ·-Then cra:fh'd the floor, while fhrinking crouds retire, And Love and Virtue funk amid the fire!-- With piercing fcreams affiiB:ed fl:rangers n1ourn, 445 And their white a:fhes n1ingle in their urn. XII. '' PELLUCID FoRMS! whofe cryfl:al bofoms {how The iliine of welfare, or the :fhadc of woe ; Who with foft lips falute returning Spring, And hail the Zephyr quivering on his wing ; 450 Or watch, untired, the wintery clouds, and :fhare With !heaming eyes my vegetable care ; [ 149 ] Go, £hove the dim mifl: frotn the mountain's brow·, Chafe the white fog, which floods the vale below ; Melt the thick fnows, that linger on the lands, 45 5 And catch the hailfiones in your little hands ; Guard the coy bloffom from the pelting :thower, And da:fh the ritny fpangles from the bower; From ea-ch chill leaf the fih:ery drops repel, And clofe the timorous floret's golden hell. Shove the dim rnifl. 1. 453· See note on l. 20 of this Canto. Catch the hail-.ftoms. I. 456. See note on l. I 5 of this Canto. From each chilllraf. 1. 459· The upper {ide of the leaf is the organ of v~ge~ablc refpiration, as explained in the additional notes, No .. XXXVII, bene~ the leaf lS ha~le to injury from much moifiure on this furface, a1~d IS deflroyed. by being ~meared w1th oil, in thefe refpeCl:s refembling the lungs of anunals or the fpiracula of mfeCl:s. To prevent thefe injuries [orne leaves repel the dew-drops from their upper furfaces, a~ thofe of cabbages; other vegetables clofe the upper furfaces of their lea~es together 111 the night or in wet weather, as the fenfitive plant; others only hang their leaves downward fo as to {hoot the wet from them, as kidney-beans, and many trees. See note on 1. 18 of this Canto. Golden bell. J. 4 6o. There are mufcles placed about the footfblks of the leaves or leaflets of many plants, for the purpofe of clofing their upper furfaces t_ogeth~r, or of bending them down fo as to {hoot off the il1owers or ~e:v-drops, as mentiOned In the d . TJ 1 e claws of the petals or of the diVliions of the calyx of many prece 111g note. . d fl f rl1 .1 {hed 1 ·n a fimilar manner with mufcles, which are exerte to open or owers are u Tl · :t· f clofe the corol and calvx of the flower as in tragopogon, anemone. liS :c !On o . d clofina th~ leaves or flowers docs not appear to be produced limply by ope_mn.g an h b r l I fi lves but by the conneClion of thofc mufdes with a i r nla/IOn on t e mtuc es t 1em e , |