OCR Text |
Show [ 74 ] Froze by inchantment on the velvet ground, Fair youths and beauteous ladies glitte~ round; On cryfial pedefrals they feem to figh, Bend the 1ncek knee, and lift the imploring eye. -And now the Sorcerefs bares her fiuivel' d hand, And circles thrice in air her ebon wand ; Fluih' d with new life defcending fiatues talk, The pliant marble foftening as they walk ; With deeper fobs reviving lovers breathe, Fair bofoms rife, and foft hearts pant beneath; With warmer lips relenting dan1fels fpeak, And kindling blufhes tinge the Parian cheek; To viewlefs lutes aerial voices ' :ling, And hovering loves are heard on ru.filing wing. -She waves her wand again f-freih horrors feize Their fl:iffening limbs, their vital currents freeze ; By each cold nymph her marble lover lies, And iron :ilumbers feal her glairy eyes. So with his dread Caduceus HERMEs led From the dark regions of the i1nprifon' d dead, 275 [ 75 1 Or drove in filent fhoals the lingering train To Night's dull :ihore, and PLuTo's dre~uy reign. So with her waving pencil CREWE co1nmands The realms of Tafie, and Fancy's fairy lands; Calls up with magic voice the :fhapes, that fleep tn earth's dark bofom, or unfa~hom' d deep ; That fhrined in air on viewlefs wings afpire, Or blazing bathe in elemental fire. As with nice touch her plafiic hand :ihe moves, Rife the fine forms of Beauties, Graces, Loves; Kneel to the fair Inchantrefs, fmile or :Ggh, And fade or B.ouriih, as fhe turns her eye. 295 300 Fair CrsTA, rival of the rofy dawn, 305 I Call' d her light choir, and trod the dewy lawn i So with her waving pen~il. I. 295· Alluding to the many beautiful paintings by Mifs EMMA CREWE, to whom the author is indebted for the very elegant Frontifpiece, where Flora, at play with Cupid, is loading him with garden-tools. Cijlus fahdaniferus. I. 305. Many males, one female. The p~tals of this beautiful and fragrant lhrub, as well as ·of the CEnothera, tree-.primrofe, and others, continue exL 1. |