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Show ( 169 ) Cold fro1n a thoufand rocks, where Ganges leads 345 The guihing waters to his fultry meads ; By moon-crown" d mofques with gay refleCtions glides, And vafi pagodas trembling on his fides ; # With fweet loquacity N EL UMBO fails, Shouts to his ihores, and parleys with his gales ; 350 Invokes his echoes, as :ihe moves along, And thrills his ripling [urges with her fong. -As round the Nymph her lifl:ening lovers pia y, And guard the Beauty on her watery way; Charm'd on the brink relenting tygers gaze, 355 And pau:Gng buffaloes forget to graze ; Admiring elephants forfake their woods, Stretch their wide ears, and wade into the floods ; Nelumbo. I. :i49· Nympha:a Nelumbo. A beautiful rofe-red flower on a receptacle as large as an artichoke. The capfule is perforated with holes at the top, and th~ feeds rattle in it. PerfeCt leaves are feen in the feeds before they germinate. Linneus, who has enlifled all our fenfes into the fervice of botany, has obferved this rattling of the Nelumbo; ami mentions what he calls an eleCtric murmur, like diflant thunder in hop-yards, when the wind blows, and afks the caufe of it. We have one kind of pedicularis in our meadows, which has obtained the name of rattle-grafs, from the rattling of its dry feed-veffels under our feet. z |