24 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



wonderful and innate inftinds, by their ingenious 

 fiftions. The fwallow Progné flies the foreft ; her 

 fifter Philomela delights to fing in folitary places. 

 Prognc thus, one day, addfefles her : 



Le défert eft-il fait pour des talens fi beaux? 

 Venez faire aux cites éclater leurs merveilles : 

 Auffi bien, en voyant les bois, 

 Sans cefTe il vous fou\'ient que Térée autrefois, 

 Parmi des demeures pareilles. 



Exerça fa fureur fur vos divins appas. 



Et c'efl le fouvenir d'un fi cruel outrage, 

 Qui fait, reprit fa fœur, que je ne vous fuis pas: 

 En voyant les hommes, helas ! 

 Il m'en fouvient bien davantage. * 



I never hear the enchantingly melancholy fong 

 of a nightingale, fhrouded in (hrubbery, and the 

 lengthened piou-piou, which interrupt, like fighs, 

 the mufic of that folitary fongfter, without be- 

 lieving, that Nature had revealed her adventure to 



* Thus imitated : 



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 ! fifler dear, fad Philomel replies, 



'Tis this that makes mc fliun the haunts of men : 



Terëus and Courts the anguifli'd heart allies, 

 And haflcs, for flielter, to the woods again. 



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