While wondering loves the bursting grave surround,
And edge with meeting wings the yawning ground,
Stretch their fair necks, and leaning o'er the brink,
View the pale regions of the dead, and shrink;
Long with broad eyes ecstatic beauty stands,
Heaves her white bosom, spreads her waxen hands;
Then with loud shriek the panting youth alarms,
66 My life!
my love!" and springs into his arms.

FAIRIES BATHING.

HITHER in sportive bands bright DEVON leads Graces and loves from Chatsworth's flowery meads. Charm'd round the nymph, they climb the rifted rocks;

And steep in mountain-mist their golden locks;
On ventrous step her sparry caves explore,

And light with radiant eyes her realms of ore:
-Oft by her bubbling founts, and shadowy domes,
In gay undress the fairy legion roams,

Their dripping palms in playful malice fill,
Or taste with ruby lip the sparkling rill;

Crowd round her baths, and, bending o'er the side,
Unclaspt their sandals, and their zones untied,
Dip with gay fear the shuddering foot undrest,
And quick retract it to the fringed vest;
Or cleave with brandisht arms the lucid stream,
And sob, their blue eyes twinkling in the stream.

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-High o'er the checker'd vault with transient glow
Bright lustres dart, as dash the waves below;
And echo's sweet responsive voice prolongs
The dulcet tumult of their silver tongues.-
O'er their flusht cheeks uncurling tresses flow,
And dew-drops glitter on their necks of snow;
Round each fair nymph her dropping mantle clings,
And loves emerging shake their showery wings.

JUPITER AND JUNO.

So, robed by beauty's queen, with softer charms SATURNIA Wooed the thunderer to her arms; O'er her fair limbs a veil of light she spread, And bound a starry diadem on her head; Long braids of pearl her golden tresses graced, And the charm'd CESTUS sparkled round her waist. -Raised o'er the woof, by beauty's hand inwrought, Breathes the soft sigh, and glows the enamored thought;

Vows on light wings succeed, and quivered wiles, Assuasive accents, and seductive smiles.

-Slow rolls the cyprian car in purple pride,

And, steered by LOVE, ascends admiring Ide;

Climbs the green slopes, the nodding woods pervades,

Burns round the rocks, or gleams amid the shades. -Glad ZEPHYR leads the van, and waves above

The barbed darts, and blazing torch of love;

Reverts his smiling face, and pausing flings

Soft showers of roses from aurelian wings.
Delighted fawns, in wreaths of flowers arrayed,
With tip-toe wood-boys beat the checkered glade;
Alarmed naiads, rising into air,

Lift o'er their silver urns their leafy hair;
Each to her oak the bashful dryads shrink,
And azure eyes are seen at every chink.
-LOVE culls a flaming shaft of broadest wing,
And rests the fork upon the quivering string;
Points his arch eye aloft, with fingers strong
Draws to his curl'd ear the silken throng;
Loud twangs the steel, the golden arrow flies,
Trails a long line of lustre through the skies;
"Tis done!" he shouts, "the mighty monarch
feels!"

And with loud laughter shakes the silver wheels;
Bends o'er the car, and whirling as it moves,
His loosened bowstring, drives the rising doves.
Pierced on his throne the starting thunderer turns
Melts with soft sighs, with kindling rapture burns;
Clasps her fair hand, and eyes in fond amaze
The bright intruder with enamored gaze.