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Show [ I 7?. ] Night's tinfel beams on fn1ooth Lock-lomond dance, Impatient .iEGA views the bright expanfe ;- 3 86 In vain her eyes the palling floods explore, Wave after wave rolls freightlefs to the .lhore. -Now dim atnid the difiant foam ihe fpies A rifi.ng fpeck,-" 'tis! 'tis he!" ihe cries; As with firm anns he beats the ftreatns a:G.de, And cleaves with ri:G.ng chefl: the toiling tide, With bended knee ihe prints the humid fands, Up-turns her ~lifiening eyes, and fpreads her hands ; -"'Tis he, ~tis he!---tny Lord, my life, my love! 395 " Slumber, ye winds; ye billows, ceafe to move! " Beneath his arms your buoyant plutnage fpread, '' Y e Swans I ye Halcyons ! hover round his head ! '' - .iEgrt. I. 386. Conferva :egagropila. It is found loofe in many lakes in a globular form, from the fize of a walnut to that of a melon, much refembling the balls of hair found in the fl:omachs of cows; it adheres to nothing, but rolls from one part of the lake to another. The Conferva vagabunda dwells on the European feas, travelling along in the midfl: of the waves; (Spec. Plant.) Thcfe may not improperly be called jtinerant vegetables. In a fimilar manner the Fucus natans (fwimming) {hikes no roots into the earth, but floats on the fea in very extenftve malfes, and may be faid to be a plant of pa!fage, as it is wafted by the winds from one fhore to another. [ 173 ] -With eager fiep the boiling furf fhe braves, And meets her reBuent lover in the waves ; Loofe o'er the flood her azure mantle fwims, And the clear frream betrays her fnowy limbs. So on her fe~-girt tower fair HERO flood At parting day, and mark'd the dafhing flood; While high in air, .the glimmering rocks above, Shone the bright lamp, the pilot-fiar of Love. ---With robe outfpread the wavering flame behind She kneels, and guards it from the ihifting wind ; Breathes to her Goddefs all her vows, and guides 400 40.5 Her bold LEANDER o'er the dulky tides; 410 Wrings his wet hair, his briny bofom warms,. And clafps her panting lover in her arms . Deep, in wide caverns and their !hadowy ailes, Daughter of Earth, the cha:fte TRuFFELIA finiles ; Tmffilia. 1. 414. (Lycopcrdom Tuber) Truffle. Clandefl:ine marriage. This fungus never appears above ground, requiring little air, and perhaps no light. It is |