To him, who, deck'd with pearly pride, Ah no! more pleased thy haunts I seek, The perfect spell shall then avail, Hail Nymph, ador'd by Britain, hail! Tell. For an account of the celebrated event referred to see Voltaire's Epistle to the King of Prussia.-L. The Dutch, amongst whom there are very severe penalties for those who are convicted of killing this bird. They are kept tame in almost all their towns, and particularly at the Hague, of the arms of which they make a part. The common people of Holland are said to entertain a superstitious sentiment, that if the whole species of them should become extinct, they should lose their liberties. ANTISTROPHE. Beyond the measure vast of thought, Saw Britain link'd to his now adverse strand,* The wild waves found another way, By winds and inward labours torn, In thunders dread was push'd aside, And down the shouldering billows born. And see, like gems,† her laughing train, The little isles on every side, Mona, once hid from those who search the main. Where thousand Elfin shapes abide, *This tradition is mentioned by several of our old historians. Some naturalists too have endeavoured to support the probability of the fact, by arguments drawn from the correspondent disposition of the two opposite coasts. I don't remember that any poetical use has been hitherto made of it. From Milton. the sea-girt isles, That like to rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.-Comus, v. 21. There is a tradition in the isle of Man, that a mermaid becoming enamoured of a young man of extraordinary beauty, took an opportunity of And Wight who checks the westering tide, To thee this blest divorce she ow'd, For thou hast made her vales thy lov'd, thy last abode! SECOND EPODE. Then too, 'tis said, an hoary pile, meeting him one day as he walked on the shore, and opened her passion to him, but was received with a coldness, occasioned by his horror and surprise at her appearance. This however was so misconstrued by the sea-lady that, in revenge for his treatment of her, she punished the whole island, by covering it with a mist, so that all who attempted to carry on any commerce with it, either never arrived at it, but wandered up and down the sea, or were on a sudden wrecked upon its cliffs. Both Pindar and Euripides This metaphor comes from the Greek. call the Temple at Delphi-the Navel of the world. It is found in Milton: Within the Navel of this hideous wood. Comus, v. 520.-C. Yet still, if truth those beams infuse How may the poet now unfold, How learn delighted, and amaz'd, Ye forms divine, ye laureate band, Now sooth her, to her blissful train ODE TO A LADY,† ON THE DEATH OF COLONEL CHARLES ROSS IN THE ACTION AT FONTENOY. WRITTEN MAY, MDCCXLV. WHILE, lost to all his former mirth, The Tangles of Neæra's hair.-Milton's Lycides, v. 69. Miss Elizabeth Goddard. See Life. |