^O STUDIES OF NATURE. 



Why wafte fuch fweetnefs on the defert air ! 



Come, charm the city with thy tuneful note. 

 Think too, in folitude, that form fo fair 



Felt violation : flee the horrid thought. 



Ah ! filler dear, fad Philomel replies, 



'Tis this that makes me fhun the haunts of men : 



Terëus and Courts the anguifh'd heart allies, 

 And haftes, for flielter, to the woods again. 



*' What a feries of ideas !" cried he, " how 

 ** tenderly affeding it is !" His voice was ftifled, 

 and the tears rufhed to his eyes. I perceived that 

 he was farther moved by the fecret correfponden- 

 cies between the talents and the deftiny of that 

 bird, and his own fituation. 



It is obvious, then, in the two allegorical fubjeds 

 of Diana and Jdonis, and of Love and Friendfliip, 

 that there are really within us, two diftinft powers, 

 the harmonies of which exalt the foul, when the 

 phyfical image throws us into a moral fentiment, 

 as in the firft example j and abafe it, on the con- 

 trary, when a moral fentiment recals us to a phy- 

 fical fenfation, as in the example of Love and, 

 Friendlhip. 



The fupprefTed circumftances contribute farther 

 to the moral expreffions, becaufethey are conform- 

 able to the expanfive nature of the foul. They 



conduct 



