NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 221 
Pinea semiferi capitis velamina quassans, 
Unco sepe labro calamos percurrit_hianteis, 
Fistula silvestrem ne cesset fundere musam. 
Lucretius, Lib. iv. 1. 576. 
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* “© Whence may’st thou solve, ingenuous ! to the world 
The rise of echoes, formed in desert scenes, 
’Mid rocks, and mountains, mocking every sound, 
When late we wander through their solemn glooms, 
And, with loud voice, some lost companion call. 
And oft re-echoes echo till the peal 
Rings seven times round; so rock to rock repels 
‘The mimic shout, reiterated close. 
*‘Here haunt the goat-foot satyrs, and the nymphs 
As rustics tell, and fauns whose frolic dance, 
And midnight revels oft, they say, are heard 
Breaking the noiseless silence; while soft strains 
Melodious issue, and the vocal band 
Strike to their madrigals the plaintive lyre. 
Such, feign they, sees the shepherd obvious oft, 
Led on by Pan, with pine-leaved garland crown’d 
And seven mouth’d reed his labouring lip beneath, 
Waking the woodland muse with ceaseless song.” 
J. Mason Goop 
