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Show ( 186 ] IX. r. " Ethereal Coht>rts! E(fences of Air f 305 Make the green children of the Spring your care ! Oh,. SYLPHS t difclofe in this inquiring age One GoLDEN SEcRET to fon1e favour' d fage ; Grant the charm' d talif1nan, the chain,. that binds, Or guides the changeful pinions of the winds f -No more ihall hoary Boreas, iifuing forth With Eurus, lead the tempefts of the North;· Rime the pale Dawn, or veil' d in Raky :fhowers. Chill the f weet bofoms of the fmiling Hours·. By whifpering Aufter waked fhall Zephyr rife,. Meet with foft kifs, and mingle in the ikies,. One golden fee ret. 1. 308. The fuddennefs of the change of the wind from N. E. to· S. W. feems to lhew that it depends on fome minute chemical caufe; which if it was . difcovered might probably, like other chemical caufes, be governed by human agency; fuch as blowing up rocks by gunpowder, or extracting the lightening from the clouds. If this could be accompli{hed, it would be the mofl: h:!ppy difcovery that ever has happened to thefe northern latitudes, fince in this country theN. E. winds bring frofl:, and the S. W. ones are attended with warmth and moifl:ure; if the rnferior currents of air could be kept perpetually from the S. W. fupplied by new productions of air at the line, or by fuperior currents flowing in a contrary direction, the vegetation of this country would be doubled ; as in the moifi vallies of Africa, which know no frofl: ; the number of its inhabitants would be increafed, and their lives prolol'lged ; as great abundance of the aged and infirm of mankind, as well as many birds and animals, are defl:royed by fevere continued froft.s in this climate. [ i87 1 Fan the gay floret, bend the yellow ear, And rock the uncurtain'd. cradle of the year; Autumn and Spring in lively union blend, And fro1n the fkies the golden Age defcend. 2. " CafHed on ice, beneath the circling Bear., A vafi CAMELI~N drinks and vomits air; O'er twelve degrees his ribs gigantic bend, And many a league his gafj_Ji.ng jaws extend ·; Half-fifh, beneath, his fcaly volutes fpread, And vegetable plumage crefl:s his head; Huge fields of air his wrinkled ikin receives, From panting gills, wide lungs, and waving leaves ; Then with dread throes fubfides his bloated form, His iliriek the thunder, and his figh the ftorm. 3 30 Oft high in heaven the hiffing Demon wins His towering courfe, upborne on winnowing fins ; A vafl Came/ion. I. 322. See adJitional notes, No. XXXIII. on the deftrutlion and .reproduCtion of the atmofphere. - |
