A Minute The Sensibility To Heat Increases And The Nerves Of The Skin Are Equally Excited By The Lessened Stimulus. The Sensation Of Warmth At Emerging From A Cold-Bath, And The Pain Called The Hot-Ach, After The Hands Have Been Immersed In Snow, Depend On The Same Principle, Viz. The Increased Sensibility Of The Skin After Having Been Previously Exposed To A Stimulus Less Than Usual.] "Here Oft Her Lord Surveys The Rude Domain, Fair Arts Of Greece Triumphant In His Train; 195 Lo! As He Steps, The Column'D Pile Ascends, The Blue Roof Closes, Or The Crescent Bends; New Woods Aspiring Clothe Their Hills With Green, Smooth Slope The Lawns, The Grey Rock Peeps Between; Relenting Nature Gives Her Hand To Taste, 200 And Health And Beauty Crown The Laughing Waste. [Here Oft Her Lord. L. 193. Alluding To The Magnificent And Beautiful Crescent, And Superb Stables Lately Erected At Buxton For The Accomodation Of The Company By The Duke Of Devonshire; And To The Plantations With Which He Has Decorated The Surrounding Mountains.] Vi. "Nymphs! Your Bright Squadrons Watch With Chemic Eyes The Cold-Elastic Vapours, As They Rise; With Playful Force Arrest Them As They Pass, And To Pure Air Betroth The Flaming Gas. 205 Round Their Translucent Forms At Once They Fling Their Rapturous Arms, With Silver Bosoms Cling; In Fleecy Clouds Their Fluttering Wings Extend, Or From The Skies In Lucid Showers Descend; Whence Rills And Rivers Owe Their Secret Birth, 210 And Ocean'S Hundred Arms Infold The Earth. [And To Pure Air. L. 204. Until Very Lately Water Was Esteemed A Simple Element, Nor Are All The Most Celebrated Chemists Of Europe Yet Converts To The New Opinion Of Its Decomposition. Mr. Lavoisier And Others Of The French School Have Most Ingeniously Endeavoured To Shew That Water Consists Of Pure Air, Called By Them Oxygene, And Of Inflammable Air, Called Hydrogene, With As Much Of The Matter Of Heat, Or Calorique, As Is Necessary To Preserve Them In The Form Of Gas. Gas Is Distinguished From Steam By Its Preserving Its Elasticity Under The Pressure Of The Atmosphere, And In The Greatest Degrees Of Cold Yet Known. The History Of The Progress Of This Great Discovery Is Detailed In The Memoires Of The Royal Academy For 1781, And The Experimental Proofs Of It Are Delivered In Lavoisier'S Elements Of Chemistry. The Results Of Which Are That Water Consists Of Eighty-Five Parts By Weight Of Oxygene, And Fifteen Parts By Weight Of Hydrogene, With A Sufficient Quantity Of Calorique. Not Only Numerous Chemical Phenomena, But Many Atmospherical And Vegetable Facts Receive Clear And Beautiful Elucidation From This Important Analysis. In The Atmosphere Inflammable Air Is Probably Perpetually Uniting With Vital Air And Producing Moisture Which Descends In Dews And Showers, While The Growth Of Vegetables By The Assistance Of Light Is Perpetually Again Decomposing The Water They Imbibe From The Earth, And While They Retain The Inflammable Air For The Formation Of Oils, Wax, Honey, Resin, &C. They Give Up The Vital Air To Replenish The Atmosphere.] "So, Robed By Beauty'S Queen, With Softer Charms Saturnia Woo'D The Thunderer To Her Arms; O'Er Her Fair Limbs A Veil Of Light She Spread, And Bound A Starry Diadem On Her Head; 215 Long Braids Of Pearl Her Golden Tresses Grac'D, 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 Enamour'D Thought; Vows On Light Wings Succeed, And Quiver'D Wiles, 220 Assuasive Accents, And Seductive Smiles. --Slow Rolls The Cyprian Car In Purple Pride, And, Steer'D By Love, Ascends Admiring Ide; Climbs The Green Slopes, The Nodding Woods Pervades, Burns Round The Rocks, Or Gleams Amid The Shades. 225 --Glad Zephyr Leads The Train, 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 Wreathes Of Flowers Array'D, 230 With Tiptoe Wood-Boys Beat The Chequer'D 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 Through Every Chink. 235 --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 Curled Ear The Silken Thong; Loud Twangs The Steel, The Golden Arrow Flies, 240 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 Loosen'D Bowstring, Drives The Rising Doves. 245 --Pierced On His Throne The Slarting Thunderer Turns, Melts With Soft Sighs, With Kindling Rapture Burns; Clasps Her Fair Hand, And Eyes In Fond Amaze The Bright Intruder With Enamour'D Gaze. "And Leaves My Goddess, Like A Blooming Bride, 250 "The Fanes Of Argos For The Rocks Of Ide? "Her Gorgeous Palaces, And Amaranth Bowers, "For Cliff-Top'D Mountains, And Aerial Towers?" He Said; And, Leading From Her Ivory Seat The Blushing Beauty To His Lone Retreat, 255 Curtain'D With Night The Couch Imperial Shrouds, And Rests The Crimson Cushions Upon Clouds.-- Earth Feels The Grateful Influence From Above, Sighs The Soft Air, And Ocean Murmurs Love; Etherial Warmth Expands His Brooding Wing, 260 And In Still Showers Descends The Genial Spring. [And Steer'D By Love. L. 222. The Younger Love, Or Cupid, The Son Of Venus, Owes His Existence And His Attributes To Much Later Times Than The Eros, Or Divine Love, Mentioned In Canto I. Since The Former Is No Where Mentioned By Homer, Though So Many Apt Opportunities Of Introducing Him Occur In The Works Of That Immortal Bard. Bacon.] [And In Still Showers. L. 260. The Allegorical Interpretation Of The Very Antient Mythology Which Supposes Jupiter To Represent The Superior Part Of The Atmosphere Or Ether, And Juno The Inferior Air, And That The Conjunction Of These Two Produces Vernal Showers, As Alluded To In Virgil'S Georgics, Is So Analogous To The Present Important Discovery Of The Production Of Water From Pure Air, Or Oxygene, And Inflammable Air, Or Hydrogene, (Which From Its Greater Levity Probably Resides Over The Former,) That One Should Be Tempted To Believe That The Very Antient Chemists Of Egypt Had Discovered The Composition Of Water, And Thus Represented It In Their Hieroglyphic Figures Before The Invention Of Letters. In The Passage Of Virgil Jupiter Is Called Ether, And Descends In Prolific Showers On The Bosom Of Juno, Whence The Spring Succeeds And All Nature Rejoices. Tum Pater Omnipotens Foecundis Imbribus Aether Conjugis In Gremium Laetae Descendit, Et Omnes Magnus Alit, Magno Commixtus Corpore, Faetus. Virg. Georg. Lib. Ii. L. 325.] Vii. "Nymphs Of Aquatic Taste! Whose Placid Smile Breathes Sweet Enchantment O'Er Britannia'S Isle; Whose Sportive Touch In Showers Resplendent Flings Her Lucid Cataracts, And Her Bubbling Springs; 265 Through Peopled Vales The Liquid Silver Guides, And Swells In Bright Expanse Her Freighted Tides. You With Nice Ear, In Tiptoe Trains, Pervade Dim Walks Of Morn Or Evening'S Silent Shade; Join The Lone Nightingale, Her Woods Among, 270 And Roll Your Rills Symphonious To Her Song; Through Fount-Full Dells, And Wave-Worn Valleys Move, And Tune Their Echoing Waterfalls To Love; Or Catch, Attentive To The Distant Roar, The Pausing Murmurs Of The Dashing Shore; 275 Or, As Aloud She Pours Her Liquid Strain, Pursue The Nereid On The Twilight Main. --Her Playful Sea-Horse Woos Her Soft Commands, Turns His Quick Ears, His Webbed Claws Expands, His Watery Way With Waving Volutes Wins, 280 Or Listening Librates On Unmoving Fins. The Nymph Emerging Mounts Her Scaly Seat, Hangs O'Er His Glossy Sides Her Silver Feet, With Snow-White Hands Her Arching Veil Detains, Gives To His Slimy Lips The Slacken'D Reins, 285 Lifts To The Star Of Eve Her Eye Serene, And Chaunts The Birth Of Beauty'S Radiant Queen.-- O'Er Her Fair Brow Her Pearly Comb Unfurls Her Beryl Locks, And Parts The Waving Curls, Each Tangled Braid With Glistening Teeth Unbinds 290 And With The Floating Treasure Musks The Winds.-- Thrill'D By The Dulcet Accents, As She Sings, The Rippling Wave In Widening Circles Rings; Night'S Shadowy Forms Along The Margin Gleam With Pointed Ears, Or Dance Upon The Stream; 295 The Moon Transported Stays Her Bright Career, And Maddening Stars Shoot Headlong From The Sphere. [Her Playful Seahorse. L. 277. Described Form An Antique Gem.] Viii. "Nymphs! Whose Fair Eyes With Vivid Lustres Glow For Human Weal, And Melt At Human Woe; Late As You Floated On Your Silver Shells, 300 Sorrowing And Slow By Derwent'S Willowy Dells; Where By Tall Groves His Foamy Flood He Steers Through Ponderous Arches O'Er Impetuous Wears, By Derby'S Shadowy Towers Reflective Sweeps, And Gothic Grandeur Chills His Dusky Deeps; 305 You Pearl'D With Pity'S Drops His Velvet Sides, Sigh'D In His Gales, And Murmur'D In His Tides, Waved O'Er His Fringed Brink A Deeper Gloom, And Bow'D His Alders O'Er Milcena'S Tomb. [O'Er Milcena'S Tomb. L. 308. In Memory Of Mrs. French, A Lady Who To Many Other Elegant Accomplishments Added A Proficiency In Botany And Natural History.] "Oft With Sweet Voice She Led Her Infant-Train, 310 Printing With Graceful Step His Spangled Plain, Explored His Twinkling Swarms, That Swim Or Fly, And Mark'D His Florets With Botanic Eye.-- "Sweet Bud Of Spring! How Frail Thy Transient Bloom, "Fine Film," She Cried, "Of Nature'S Fairest Loom! 315 "Soon Beauty Fades Upon Its Damask Throne!"-- --Unconscious Of The Worm, That Mined Her Own!-- --Pale Are Those Lips, Where Soft Caresses Hung, Wan The Warm Cheek, And Mute The Tender Tongue, Cold Rests That Feeling Heart On Derwent'S Shore, 320 And Those Love-Lighted Eye-Balls Roll No More! --Here Her Sad Consort, Stealing Through The Gloom Of Hangs In Mute Anguish O'Er The Scutcheon'D Hearse, Or Graves With Trembling Style The Votive Verse. 325 "Sexton! Oh, Lay Beneath This Sacred Shrine, When Time'S Cold Hand Shall Close My Aching Eyes, Oh, Gently Lay This Wearied Earth Of Mine, Where Wrap'D In Night My Loved Milcena Lies. "So Shall With Purer Joy My Spirit Move, 330 When The Last Trumpet Thrills The Caves Of Death, Catch The First Whispers Of My Waking Love, And Drink With Holy Kiss Her Kindling Breath. "The Spotless Fair, With Blush Ethereal Warm, Shall Hail With Sweeter Smile Returning Day, 335 Rise From Her Marble Bed A Brighter Form, And Win On Buoyant Step Her Airy Way. "Shall Bend Approved, Where Beckoning Hosts Invite, On Clouds Of Silver Her Adoring Knee, Approach With Seraphim The Throne Of Light, 340 --And Beauty Plead With Angel-Tongue For Me!" Ix. "Your Virgin Trains On Brindley'S Cradle Smiled, And Nursed With Fairy-Love The Unletter'D Child, Spread Round His Pillow All Your Secret Spells, Pierced All Your Springs, And Open'D All Your Wells.-- 345 As Now On Grass, With Glossy Folds Reveal'D, Glides The Bright Serpent, Now In Flowers Conceal'D; Far Shine The Scales, That Gild His Sinuous Back, And Lucid Undulations Mark His Track; So With Strong Arm Immortal Brindley Leads 350 His Long Canals, And Parts The Velvet Meads; Winding In Lucid Lines, The Watery Mass Mines The Firm Rock, Or Loads The Deep Morass, With Rising Locks A Thousand Hills Alarms, Flings O'Er A Thousand Streams Its Silver Arms, 355 Feeds The Long Vale, The Nodding Woodland Laves, And Plenty, Arts, And Commerce Freight The Waves. --Nymphs! Who Erewhile Round Brindley'S Early Bier On Show-White Bosoms Shower'D The Incessant Tear, Adorn His Tomb!--Oh, Raise The Marble Bust, 360 Proclaim His Honours, And Protect His Dust! With Urns Inverted, Round The Sacred Shrine Their Ozier Wreaths Let Weeping Naiads Twine; While On The Top Mechanic Genius Stands, Counts The Fleet Waves, And Balances The Lands. [On Brindley'S Cradle Smiled. L. 341. The Life Of Mr. Brindley, Whose Great Abilities In The Construction Of Canal Navigation Were Called Forth By The Patronage Of The Duke Of Bridgwater, May Be Read In Dr. Kippis'S Biographia Britannica, The Excellence Of His Genius Is Visible In Every Part Of This Island. He Died At Turnhurst In Staffordshire In 1772, And Ought To Have A Monument In The Cathedral Church At Lichfield.] 365 X. "Nymphs! You First Taught To Pierce The Secret Caves Of Humid Earth, And Lift Her Ponderous Waves; Bade With Quick Stroke The Sliding Piston Bear The Viewless Columns Of Incumbent Air;-- Press'D By The Incumbent Air The Floods Below, 370 Through Opening Valves In Foaming Torrents Flow, Foot After Foot With Lessen'D Impulse Move, And Rising Seek The Vacancy Above.-- So When The Mother, Bending O'Er His Charms, Clasps Her Fair Nurseling In Delighted Arms; 375 Throws The Thin Kerchief From Her Neck Of Snow, And Half Unveils The Pearly Orbs Below; With Sparkling Eye The Blameless Plunderer Owns Her Soft Embraces, And Endearing Tones, Seeks The Salubrious Fount With Opening Lips, 380 Spreads His Inquiring Hands, And Smiles, And Sips. [Lift Her Ponderous Waves. L. 366. The Invention Of The Pump Is Of Very Antient Date, Being Ascribed To One Ctesebes An Athenian, Whence It Was Called By The Latins Machina Ctesebiana; But It Was Long Before It Was Known That The Ascent Of The Piston Lifted The Superincumbent Column Of The Atmosphere, And That Then The Pressure Of The Surrounding Air On The Surface Of The Well Below Forced The Water Up Into The Vacuum, And That On That Account In The Common Lifting Pump The Water Would Rise Only About Thirty-Five Feet, As The Weight Of Such A Column Of Water Was In General An Equipoise To The Surrounding Atmosphere. The Foamy Appearance Of Water, When The Pressure Of The Air Over It Is Diminished, Is Owing To The Expansion And Escape Of The Air Previously Dissolved By It, Or Existing In Its Pores. When A Child First Sucks It Only Presses Or Champs The Teat, As Observed By The Great Harvey, But Afterwards It Learns To Make An Incipient Vacuum In Its Mouth, And Acts By Removing The Pressure Of The Atmosphere From The Nipple, Like A Pump.] "Connubial Fair! Whom No Fond Transport Warms To Lull Your Infant In Maternal Arms; Who, Bless'D In Vain With Tumid Bosoms, Hear His Tender Wailings With Unfeeling Ear; 385 The Soothing Kiss And Milky Rill Deny To The Sweet Pouting Lip, And Glistening Eye!-- Ah! What Avails The Cradle'S Damask Roof, The Eider Bolster, And Embroider'D Woof!-- Oft Hears The Gilded Couch Unpity'D Plains, 390 And Many A Tear The Tassel'D Cushion Stains! No Voice So Sweet Attunes His Cares To Rest, So Soft No Pillow, As His Mother'S Breast!-- --Thus Charm'D To Sweet Repose, When Twilight Hours Shed Their Soft Influence On Celestial Bowers, 395 The Cherub, Innocence, With Smile Divine Shuts His White Wings, And Sleeps On Beauty'S Shrine. [Ah! What Avails. L. 387. From An Elegant Little Poem Of Mr. Jerningham'S Intitled Il Latte, Exhorting Ladies To Nurse Their Own Children.] Xi. "From Dome To Dome When Flames Infuriate Climb, Sweep The Long Street, Invest The Tower Sublime; Gild The Tall Vanes Amid The Astonish'D Night, 400 And Reddening Heaven Returns The Sanguine Light; While With Vast Strides And Bristling Hair Aloof Pale Danger Glides Along The Falling Roof; And Giant Terror Howling In Amaze Moves His Dark Limbs Across The Lurid Blaze. 405 Nymphs! You First Taught The Gelid Wave To Rise Hurl'D In Resplendent Arches To The Skies; In Iron Cells Condensed The Airy Spring, And Imp'D The Torrent With Unfailing Wing; --On The Fierce Flames The Shower Impetuous Falls, 410 And Sudden Darkness Shrouds The Shatter'D Walls; Steam, Smoak, And Dust In Blended Volumes Roll, And Night And Silence Repossess The Pole.-- [Hurl'D In Resplendent Arches. L. 406. The Addition Of An Air-Cell To Machines For Raising Water To Extinguish Fire Was First Introduced By Mr. Newsham Of London, And Is Now Applied To Similar Engines For Washing Wall-Trees In Gardens, And To All Kinds Of Forcing Pumps, And Might Be Applied With Advantage To Lifting Pumps Where The Water Is Brought From A Great Distance Horizontally. Another Kind Of Machine Was Invented By One Greyl, In Which A Vessel Of Water Was Every Way Dispersed By The Explosion Of Gun-Powder Lodging In The Centre Of It, And Lighted By An Adapted Match; From This Idea Mr. Godfrey Proposed A Water-Bomb Of Similar Construction. Dr. Hales To Prevent The Spreading Of Fire Proposed To Cover The Floors And Stairs Of The Adjoining Houses With Earth; Mr. Hartley Proposed To Prevent Houses From Taking Fire By Covering The Cieling With Thin Iron-Plates, And Lord Mahon By A Bed Of Coarse Mortar Or Plaister Between The Cieling And Floor Above It. May Not This Age Of Chemical Science Discover Some Method Of Injecting Or Soaking Timber With Lime-Water And Afterwards With Vitriolic Acid, And Thus Fill Its Pores With Alabaster? Or Of Penetrating It With Siliceous Matter, By Processes Similar To Those Of Bergman And Achard? See Cronstadt'S Mineral. 2D. Edit. Vol. I. P. 222.] "Where Were Ye, Nymphs! In Those Disasterous Hours, Which Wrap'D In Flames Augusta'S Sinking Towers? 415 Why Did Ye Linger In Your Wells And Groves, When Sad Woodmason Mourn'D Her Infant Loves? When Thy Fair Daughters With Unheeded Screams, Ill-Fated Molesworth! Call'D The Loitering Streams?-- The Trembling Nymph On Bloodless Fingers Hung 420 Eyes From The Tottering Wall The Distant Throng, With Ceaseless Shrieks Her Sleeping Friends Alarms, Drops With Singed Hair Into Her Lover'S Arms.-- The Illumin'D Mother Seeks With Footsteps Fleet, Where Hangs The Safe Balcony O'Er The Street, 425 Wrap'D In Her Sheet Her Youngest Hope Suspends, And Panting Lowers It To Her Tiptoe Friends; Again She Hurries On Affection'S Wings, And Now A Third, And Now A Fourth, She Brings; Safe All Her Babes, She Smooths Her Horrent Brow, 430 And Bursts Through Bickering Flames, Unscorch'D, Below. So, By Her Son Arraign'D, With Feet Unshod O'Er Burning Bars Indignant Emma Trod. [Footnote: Woodmason, Molesworth. L. 416. The Histories Of These Unfortunate Families May Be Seen In The Annual Register, Or In The Gentleman'S Magazine.] "E'En On The Day When Youth With Beauty Wed, The Flames Surprized Them In Their Nuptial Bed;-- 435 Seen At The Opening Sash With Bosom Bare, With Wringing Hands, And Dark Dishevel'D Hair, The Blushing Beauty With Disorder'D Charms Round Her Fond Lover Winds Her Ivory Arms; Beat, As They Clasp, Their Throbbing Hearts With Fear, 440 And Many A Kiss Is Mix'D With Many A Tear;-- Ah Me! In Vain The Labouring Engines Pour Round Their Pale Limbs The Ineffectual Shower!-- --Then Crash'D The Floor, While Shrinking Crouds Retire, And Love And Virtue Sunk Amid The Fire!-- 445 With Piercing Screams Afflicted Strangers Mourn, And Their White Ashes Mingle In Their Urn. Xii. "Pellucid Forms! Whose Crystal Bosoms Show The Shine Of Welfare, Or The Shade Of Woe; Who With Soft Lips Salute Returning Spring, 450 And Hail The Zephyr Quivering On His Wing; Or Watch, Untired, The Wintery Clouds, And Share With Streaming Eyes My Vegetable Care; Go, Shove The Dim Mist From The Mountain'S Brow, Chase The White Fog, Which Floods The Vale Below; 455 Melt The Thick Snows, That Linger On The Lands, And Catch The Hailstones In Your Little Hands; Guard The Coy Blossom From The Pelting Shower, And Dash The Rimy Spangles From The Bower; From Each Chill Leaf The Silvery Drops Repel, 460 And Close The Timorous Floret'S Golden Bell. [Shove The Dim Mist. L. 453. See Note On L. 20 Of This Canto.] [Catch The Hail-Stones. L. 456. See Note On L. 15 Of This Canto.] [From Each Chill Leaf. L. 459. The Upper Side Of The Leaf Is The Organ Of Vegetable Respiration, As Explained In The Additional Notes, No. Xxxvii, Hence The Leaf Is Liable To Injury From Much Moisture On This Surface, And Is Destroyed By Being Smeared With Oil, In These Respects Resembling The Lungs Of Animals Or The Spiracula Of Insects. To Prevent These Injuries Some Leaves Repel The Dew-Drops From Their Upper Surfaces As Those Of Cabbages; Other Vegetables Close The Upper Surfaces Of Their Leaves Together In The Night Or In Wet Weather, As The Sensitive Plant; Others Only Hang Their Leaves Downwards So As To Shoot The Wet From Them, As Kidney-Beans, And Many Trees. See Note On L. 18 Of This Canto.] [Golden Bell. L. 460. There Are Muscles Placed About The Footstalks Of The Leaves Or Leaflets Of Many Plants, For The Purpose Of Closing Their Upper Surfaces Together, Or Of Bending Them Down So As To Shoot Off The Showers Or Dew-Drops, As Mentioned In The Preceeding Note. The Claws Of The Petals Or Of The Divisions Of The Calyx Of Many Flowers Are Furnished In A Similar Manner With Muscles, Which Are Exerted To Open Or Close The Corol And Calyx Of The Flower As In Tragopogon, Anemone. This Action Of Opening And Closing The Leaves Or Flowers Does Not Appear To Be Produced Simply By Irritation On The Muscles Themselves, But By The Connection Of Those Muscles With A Sensitive Sensorium Or Brain Existing In Each Individual Bud Or Flower. 1St. Because Many Flowers Close From The Defect Of Stimulus, Not By The Excess Of It, As By Darkness, Which Is The Absence Of The Stimulus Of Light; Or By Cold, Which Is The Absence Of The Stimulus Of Heat. Now The Defect Of Heat, Or The Absence Of Food, Or Of Drink, Affects Our Sensations, Which Had Been Previously Accustomed To A Greater Quantity Of Them; But A Muscle Cannot Be Said To Be Stimulated Into Action By A Defect Of Stimulus. 2. Because The Muscles Around The Footstalks Of The Subdivisions Of The Leaves Of The Sensitive Plant Are Exerted When Any Injury Is Offered To The Other Extremity Of The Leaf, And Some Of The Stamens Of The Flowers Of The Class Syngenesia Contract Themselves When Others Are Irritated. See Note On Chondrilla, Vol. Ii. Of This Work. From This Circumstance The Contraction Of The Muscles Of Vegetables Seems To Depend On A Disagreeable Sensation In Some Distant Part, And Not On The Irritation Of The Muscles Themselves. Thus When A Particle Of Dust Stimulates The Ball Of The Eye, The Eye-Lids Are Instantly Closed, And When Too Much Light Pains The Retina, The Muscles Of The Iris Contract Its Aperture, And This Not By Any Connection Or Consent Of The Nerves Of Those Parts, But As An Effort To Prevent Or To Remove A Disagreeable Sensation, Which Evinces That Vegetables Are Endued With Sensation, Or That Each Bud Has A Common Sensorium, And Is Furnished With A Brain Or A Central Place Where Its Nerves Were Connected.] "So Should Young Sympathy, In Female Form, Climb The Tall Rock, Spectatress Of The Storm; Life'S Sinking Wrecks With Secret Sighs Deplore, And Bleed For Others' Woes, Herself On Shore; 465 To Friendless Virtue, Gasping On The Strand, Bare Her Warm Heart, Her Virgin Arms Expand, Charm With Kind Looks, With Tender Accents Cheer, And Pour The Sweet Consolatory Tear; Grief'S Cureless Wounds With Lenient Balms Asswage, 470 Or Prop With Firmer Staff The Steps Of Age; The Lifted Arm Of Mute Despair Arrest, And Snatch The Dagger Pointed To His Breast; Or Lull To Slumber Envy'S Haggard Mien, And Rob Her Quiver'D Shafts With Hand Unseen. 475 --Sound, Nymphs Of Helicon! The Trump Of Fame, And Teach Hibernian Echoes Jones'S Name; Bind Round Her Polish'D Brow The Civic Bay, And Drag The Fair Philanthropist To Day.-- So From Secluded Springs, And Secret Caves, 480 Her Liffy Pours His Bright Meandering Waves, Cools The Parch'D Vale, The Sultry Mead Divides, And Towns And Temples Star His Shadowy Sides. [Jones'S Name. L. 476. A Young Lady Who Devotes A Great Part Of An Ample Fortune To Well Chosen Acts Of Secret Charity.] Xiii. "Call Your Light Legions, Tread The Swampy Heath, Pierce With Sharp Spades The Tremulous Peat Beneath; 485 With Colters Bright The Rushy Sward Bisect, And In New Veins The Gushing Rills Direct;-- So Flowers Shall Rise In Purple Light Array'D, And Blossom'D Orchards Stretch Their Silver Shade; Admiring Glebes Their Amber Ears Unfold, 490 And Labour Sleep Amid The Waving Gold. "Thus When Young Hercules With Firm Disdain Braved The Soft Smiles Of Pleasure'S Harlot Train; To Valiant Toils His Forceful Limbs Assign'D, And Gave To Virtue All His Mighty Mind, 495 Fierce Achelous Rush'D From Mountain-Caves, O'Er Sad Etolia Pour'D His Wasteful Waves, O'Er Lowing Vales And Bleating Pastures Roll'D, Swept Her Red Vineyards, And Her Glebes Of Gold, Mined All Her Towns, Uptore Her Rooted Woods, 500 And Famine Danced Upon The Shining Floods. The Youthful Hero Seized His Curled Crest, And Dash'D With Lifted Club The Watery Pest; With Waving Arm The Billowy Tumult Quell'D, And To His Course The Bellowing Fiend Repell'D. [Fierce Achelous. L. 495. The River Achelous Deluged Etolia, By One Of Its Branches Or Arms, Which In The Antient Languages Are Called Horns, And Produced Famine Throughout A Great Tract Of Country, This Was Represented In Hieroglyphic Emblems By The Winding Course Of A Serpent And The Roaring Of A Bull With Large Horns. Hercules, Or The Emblem Of Strength, Strangled The Serpent, And Tore Off One Horn From The Bull; That Is, He Stopped And Turned The Course Of One Arm Of The River, And Restored Plenty To The Country. Whence The Antient Emblem Of The Horn Of Plenty. Dict. Par M. Danet.] 505 "Then To A Snake The Finny Demon Turn'D His Lengthen'D Form, With Scales Of Silver Burn'D; Lash'D With Restless Sweep His Dragon-Train, And Shot Meandering O'Er The Affrighted Plain. The Hero-God, With Giant Fingers Clasp'D 510 Firm Round His Neck, The Hissing Monster Grasp'D; With Starting Eyes, Wide Throat, And Gaping Teeth, Curl His Redundant Folds, And Writhe In Death. "And Now A Bull, Amid The Flying Throng The Grisly Demon Foam'D, And Roar'D Along; 515 With Silver Hoofs The Flowery Meadows Spurn'D, Roll'D His Red Eye, His Threatening Antlers Turn'D. Dragg'D Down To Earth, The Warrior'S Victor-Hands Press'D His Deep Dewlap On The Imprinted Sands; Then With Quick Bound His Bended Knee He Fix'D 520 High On His Neck, The Branching Horns Betwixt, Strain'D His Strong Arms, His Sinewy Shoulders Bent, And From His Curled Brow The Twisted Terror Rent. --Pleased Fawns And Nymphs With Dancing Step Applaud, And Hang Their Chaplets Round The Resting God; 525 Link Their Soft Hands, And Rear With Pausing Toil The Golden Trophy On The Furrow'D Soil; Fill With Ripe Fruits, With Wreathed Flowers Adorn, And Give To Plenty Her Prolific Horn. [Dragg'D Down To Earth. L. 517. Described From An Antique Gem.] Xiv. "On Spring'S Fair Lap, Cerulean Sisters! Pour 530 From Airy Urns The Sun-Illumined Shower, Feed With The Dulcet Drops My Tender Broods, Mellifluous Flowers, And Aromatic Buds; Hang From Each Bending Grass And Horrent Thorn The Tremulous Pearl, That Glitters To The Morn; 535 Or Where Cold Dews Their Secret Channels Lave, And Earth'S Dark Chambers Hide The Stagnant Wave, O, Pierce, Ye Nymphs! Her Marble Veins, And Lead Her Gushing Fountains To The Thirsty Mead; Wide O'Er The Shining Vales, And Trickling Hills 540 Spread The Bright Treasure In A Thousand Rills. So Shall My Peopled Realms Of Leaf And Flower Exult, Inebriate With The Genial Shower; Dip Their Long Tresses From The Mossy Brink, With Tufted Roots The Glassy Currents Drink; 545 Shade Your Cool Mansions From Meridian Beams, And View Their Waving Honours In Your Streams. [Spread The Bright Treasure. L. 540. The Practice Of Flooding Lands Long In Use In China Has Been But Lately Introduced Into This Country. Besides The Supplying Water To The Herbage In Dryer Seasons, It Seems To Defend It From Frost In The Early Part Of The Year, And Thus Doubly Advances The Vegetation. The Waters Which Rise From Springs Passing Through Marl Or Limestone Are Replete With Calcareous Earth, And When Thrown Over Morasses They Deposit This Earth And Incrust Or Consolidate The Morass. This Kind Of Earth Is Deposited In Great Quantity From The Springs At Matlock Bath, And Supplies The Soft Porous Limestone Of Which The Houses And Walls Are There Constructed; And Has Formed The Whole Bank For Near A Mile On That Side Of The Derwent On Which They Stand. The Water Of Many Springs Contains Much Azotic Gas, Or Phlogistic Air, Besides Carbonic Gas, Or Fixed Air, As That Of Buxton And Bath; This Being Set At Liberty May More Readily Contribute To The Production Of Nitre By Means Of The Putrescent Matters Which It Is Exposed To By Being Spread Upon The Surface Of The Land; In The Same Manner As Frequently Turning Over Heaps Of Manure Facilitates The Nitrous Process By Imprisoning Atmospheric Air In The Interstices Of The Putrescent Materials. Water Arising By Land-Floods Brings Along With It Much Of The Most Soluble Parts Of The Manure From The Higher Lands To The Lower Ones. River-Water In Its Clear State And Those Springs Which Are Called Soft Are Less Beneficial For The Purpose Of Watering Lands, As They Contain Less Earthy Or Saline Matter; And Water From Dissolving Snow From Its Slow Solution Brings But Little Earth Along With It, As May Be Seen By The Comparative Clearness Of The Water Of Snow-Floods.] "Thus Where The Veins Their Confluent Branches Bend, And Milky Eddies With The Purple Blend; The Chyle'S White Trunk, Diverging From Its Source, 550 Seeks Through The Vital Mass Its Shining Course; O'Er Each Red Cell, And Tissued Membrane Spreads In Living Net-Work All Its Branching Threads; Maze Within Maze Its Tortuous Path Pursues, Winds Into Glands, Inextricable Clues; 555 Steals Through The Stomach'S Velvet Sides, And Sips The Silver Surges With A Thousand Lips; Fills Each Fine Pore, Pervades Each Slender Hair, And Drinks Salubrious Dew-Drops From The Air. "Thus When To Kneel In Mecca'S Awful Gloom, 560 Or Press With Pious Kiss Medina'S Tomb, League After League, Through Many A Lingering Day, Steer The Swart Caravans Their Sultry Way; O'Er Sandy Wastes On Gasping Camels Toil, Or Print With Pilgrim-Steps The Burning Soil; 565 If From Lone Rocks A Sparkling Rill Descend, O'Er The Green Brink The Kneeling Nations Bend, Bathe The Parch'D Lip, And Cool The Feverish Tongue, And The Clear Lake Reflects The Mingled Throng." The Goddess Paused,--The Listening Bands Awhile 570 Still Seem To Hear, And Dwell Upon Her Smile; Then With Soft Murmur Sweep In Lucid Trains Down The Green Slopes, And O'Er The Pebbly Plains, To Each Bright Stream On Silver Sandals Glide, Reflective Fountain, And Tumultuous Tide. 575 So Shoot The Spider-Broods At Breezy Dawn Their Glittering Net-Work O'Er The Autumnal Lawn; From Blade To Blade Connect With Cordage Fine The Unbending Grass, And Live Along The Line; Or Bathe Unwet Their Oily Forms, And Dwell 580 With Feet Repulsive On The Dimpling Well. So When The North Congeals His Watery Mass, Piles High His Snows, And Floors His Seas With Glass; While Many A Month, Unknown To Warmer Rays, Marks Its Slow Chronicle By Lunar Days; 585 Stout Youths And Ruddy Damsels, Sportive Train, Leave The White Soil, And Rush Upon The Main; From Isle To Isle The Moon-Bright Squadrons Stray, And Win In Easy Curves Their Graceful Way; On Step Alternate Borne, With Balance Nice 590 Hang O'Er The Gliding Steel, And Hiss Along The Ice.