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Show ( 72 ] On ufelefs fins in giddy circles play, And Herons and Otters feize you for their prey.- So, when the Saint frotn Padua's gracelefs land 245 In filent anguiili fought the barren :fl:rand, Hiah on the ihattcr' d beech fublitne He flood, b Still'd with his waving arm the babbling flood; " To Man's dull ear,'' He cry'd, " I call in vain, " Hear n1e, ye fcaly tenants of the main!"Misihapen Seals approach in circling flocks, In du.fky n1ail the Tortoife climbs the rocks, Torpedoes, Sharks, Rays, Porpus, Dolphins, pour Their twinkling fquadrons round the glittering ihore ; With tangled fins; behind, huge Phocre glide, 255 And Whales and Gram pi f well the difiant tide. Then kneel'd the hoary Seer, to Heav'n addrefs'd His fiery eyes, and fmote his founding breafl: ; " Blefs ye the Lord," with thundering voice he cry' d, " Blefs ye the Lord!" the bending :lhores reply'd; ( 73 ] The winds and waters caught the facred word, And mingling echoes fhouted " Blefs the Lord!" The lifl:ening :fhoals the quick contagion feel, Pant on the floods, inebriate with their zeal, Ope their wide jaws, and bow their {limy heads, . 2 6 5 And daili with frantic fins their foatny beds. Sopha' d on :filk, amid her charm-built towers, Her meads of afphodel, and amaranth bowers, Where Sleep and Silence guard the [oft abodes, In fullen apathy PAPAVER nods. Faint o'er her couch in fcintillating fireams Pafs the thin forms of Fancy and of Dreams ; Papaver. I. 207. Poppy. Many males, many females. The plan~s of this clafs are almofl: all of them poifonous ; the finefl: opium is procured by woundmg the heads of large poppies with a three-edged knife, and tying mufcle-fhells to them t? c~tch the drops. In fmall quantities it exhilarates the mind, raifes the paffions, and mv1gorates the body: in large ones it is fuccecded by intoxication, languor, fl:u.por, ~nd death. It is cufl:omary in India for a meffcnger to travel above a hundred m1les Wlth~ut refl or food, except an appropriated bit of opium for himfelf, and a Ia:ger one. f~r h1s horfe at certain fl:ages. The emaciated and decrepid appearance, wnh the nd1cu!ous a~d idiotic gefl:urcs, of the opium-eaters in Confiantinople is well defcr,ibed in the MemOir' of Baron de Tott. L |