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Show [ 160 ) Chaile, pure, and white, a zone of filver graced Her tender breail, as white, as pure, as chafl:e ;..:_ 2 30 By Jour fond [wains in playful circles drawn, On glowing wheels !he tracks the moon-bright lawn, Mounts the rude cliff, unveils her blufhing charms, And calls the panting zephyrs to her arms. E1nerged from ocean fprings the vaporous air, 2 3 5 Bathes her light limbs, uncurls her amber hair, Incrufis her beamy form with filn1s faline, And Beauty blazes through the cryfial ilirine.So with pellucid fl:uds the ice-flower gems Her rimy foliage and her candied fl:ems. 240 So from his gla:ffy horns, and pearly eyes, The diamond-beetle darts a thoufand dyes; Mounts with enatnel' d wings the vefper gale, And wheeling £hines in adamantine mFtil. Thus when loud thunders o'er Gomorrah burfl:, 245 And heaving earthquakes fhook his realms accurfl:, Icc-flower. 1. 239• Mefembryanthemum cryfl:allim~m. [ 161 ) An Angel-gue!l: led forth the tretnbling Fair With fhadowy hand, and warn' d the guiltlefs pair; " Hafl:e from thefe lands of fin, ye Righteous ! .By, {' Speed the quick fl:ep, nor turn the lingering eye ! "- -Such the comma:nd, as fabling Bards recite, 25 I When Orpheus charn1' d the grifly King of Night; Sooth'd the pale phantoms with his plaintive lay, And led the fair .t\.:ffurgent into day.- Wide yawn'd the earth, the fiery tempefi flafh'd, 255 And towns and towers in one vafi ruin crafl1'd ;- ·Onward they n1ove,-loud horror roars behind, And :fhrieks of Anguifh bellow in the wind. With many a fob, amid a thoufand fears, The beauteous wanderer pours her gufhing tears; ~oo Each foft connettion rends her troubled breafi, -She turns, unconfcious of the fiern behefl: !- " I faint!-! fall!-ah, tne!-fenfations chill " Shoot through my hones, my iliuddering bofotn thrill! " I freeze! I freeze! jufl: Heaven regards tny fault, 2 66 " Nutnbs 1ny cold limbs, and hardens into fait!- ¥ |