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Show ( 182 J Or trill in air the foft fytnphonious chime, When rapt CECILIA lifts her eye fublime, Swell, as ihe breathes, her bofom' s rifing fnow, O'er her white teeth in tuneful accents flow, Through her fair lips on whifpering pinions move, And form the tender :Gghs, that kindle love ! '' So playful LovE on Ida's flowery fides With ribbon-rein the indignant Lion guides ; Pleafed on his brinded back the lyre he rings, And ihakes delirious rapture from the firings ; Slow as the paufing Monarch fialks along, Sheaths his retraCtile claws, and drinks the fong ; Soft Nymphe on timid fiep the triumph view, ~nd liftening Fawns ~ith beating hoofs purfue ; 255 . Indignant lion guides. 1. 254. Dcfcribed from an anticnt gem, exprcffive of the combmed power of love and mufic, in the Mufeum Florent. ( 183 ] With pointed ears the alarmed forell fiarts ' And Love and Muiic [often favage hearts. VIII. " SYLPHS! YOUR bold hofis, when Heaven with j ufl:ice dread Calls the red tempefl: round the guilty head, Fierce at his nod aifutne vin~iB:ive forms, And launch'from airy cars the vollied fiorms.- From Aihur's vales when proud SENACHERIB trod, Pour'd his fwoln heart, defied the living Gon, Urged with inceffant ihouts his glittering powers, And JUDAH £hook through all her maffy towers; Round her fad altars prefs' d the profl:rate crowd, Hofl:s beat their breafl:s, and fuppliant chieftains bow'd; Loud ihrieks of n1atrons thrill' d the troubled air And tre1nbling virgins rent their fcatter'd hair; High in the midft the .kneeling King adored, Spread the blafpheming fcroll before the Lord, ' Raifed his pale hands, and breathed his paufing :Gghs, And fixed on Heaven his dim imploring eyes,- |