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Show Hear her fweet voice, the golden procefs prove ; Gaze, as they learn ; and, as they lifl:en, love. The .fir)l from Alpha to 01nega joins The letter' d tribes along the level lines ; Weighs with nice ear the vowel, liquid, furd, And breaks in fyllables the volant word. Then forms the next upon the marfhal' d plain In deepening ranks his dexterous cypher-train; And counts, as wheel the decimating bands, The dews of ..tEgypt, or Arabia's fands. And then the third on four concordant lines Prints the lone crotchet, and the quaver joins ; Marks the gay trill, the folemn paufe infcribcs, And parts with bars the undulating tribes. 125 130 134 Pleafed round her cane-wove throne, theapplaudingcroud Clapp' d their rude hands, their fwarthy foreheads bow' d; With loud acclaim " a prefent God!" they cry' d, " A prefent God!" rebellowing fhores reply'd.rfhen peal' d at intervals with mingled [well The echoing harp, fiuill clarion, horn, and fhcll; [ 6.) J While Bards edl:atic, bending o'er the lyre, Struck deeper chords, and wing' d tl1e fong with fire. Then mark' d Afironomers with keener eyes The Moon's refulgent journey through the fkies ; Watch'd the fwift Comets urge their blazing cars, 14-5 , And weigh' d the Sun with his revolving Stars. High raifed the Chymifts their Hermetic wands, (And changing forms obey' d their waving hands,) Her treafured Gold from Earth's deep chambers tore, Or fufed and harden' d her chalybeate ore. 1 so All with bent knee from fair P APYRA claim Wove by her hands the wreath of deathlefs fame. --Exulting Genius crown' d his darling child, The young arts clafp' d her knees, and Virtue ftuiled. So now DELANY forms her 1ni1nic bowers, Her paper foliage, and her filken flowers ; ISS So now Delany. I. I 55· Mrs. Delany has finiihed nine hundred and feventy accurate and elegant n:prefentations of different vegetables with the parts of their flowers, fructification, &c. according with the claffification of Linneus, in what ihe terms paper-mofaic. She began this work at the age of 74, when her ftght would no longer ferve her to paint, K |