PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 7I 



** by thy pillow : eat this morfel of honey-comb, 

 ** which I took for thee from the top of a rock. 

 " Firfl, however, repofe thyfelf upon my bofom, 

 ** and I (hall be again revived." 



f^irginia replied, " Oh, my brother ! the rays 

 " of the rifing Sun, on the fummits of thefe rocks, 

 " afford me lefs delight than thy prcfence : I love 

 " my own mother dearly ; I love thine ; but when 

 " they call thee, Son, 1 love them ftill more. The 

 " careffes which they beftow on thee, are fek more 

 *' fenfibly by me, than thofe which I myfelf receive 

 *' from them. Thou afkeft me, why thou loved 

 " me J but thofe that are reared together, always 

 " love each other : behold our birds, brought up 

 *' in the fame neft, they love like us, like us they 

 " are always together : hearken, how they call and 

 ** reply to each other, from buQi to bufli : in like 

 *' manner, when the echoes bring to my ear the airs 

 " which thou playefl:, on thy flute, from the moun- 

 ** tain- top, I repeat the words of them at the bot- 

 " torn of this valley : ihou art dear to me, but, 

 *' above all, fince that day on which thou wert de- 

 " termined to fight the malxer of the Have for my 

 *' fake : fince that period, I have faid to myfelf a 

 " thoufand times, Ah ! my brother has an excel- 

 *' lent heart; but for liim, I fhould have died with 

 " terror. I daily implore the blefiing of the Al- 

 " mighty on my own mother, and on thine, on 



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