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affection of the young for their old and decrepid dams is equalled 

 only by that of pious children to their pa'-ents. 



Crete contains a race of four-horned sheep, remarkable for their 

 purple fleece, whicii is so hard and rough that it resembles the co- 

 vering of a goat rather than that of a sheep. 



The Subus has two horns on his broad red forehead, and when 

 he swims through the sea he is accompanied by shoals of fishes sport- 

 ing delighted around him. — The mutual love of animals of difFerent 

 species for each other, is a subject of wonder. Such is that of t!ie 

 deer and the attage (the quail, rail, or woodcock) —of the gazelle 

 and the partridge, the horse and the bustard, the wolf and tlie pye, 

 for the wolf always delights in a bird of a grassy hue. 



The address to love, the " improbus amor," is very spirited. 



O Love, dread power, invincible, divine. 

 What wond'rous art, what matchless might is thine ! 

 The firm-set earth beneath thy arrows reels. 

 And fix'd is ocean when their power he feels. 

 When high from earth thou speed'st thy heaven-ward flight, 

 Olympus trembles. — E'en in realms of night. 

 Tormented shades, in anguish as they groan. 

 With shivering horror thy dread presence own. 

 And though the sweets of Lethe's stream they prove. 

 Ne'er drink oblivion to tiie power of love. 

 In strength resistless spreads thy awful sway. 

 Beyond where ever shot the solar ray. 

 In vain with thine his arms would Phoebus wield. 

 E'en Jove's winged lightnings to thy terrors yield. 

 Such, dreadful god, thy shafts of keen desire. 

 Heart-wounding, cureless, dipt in plague and tire, 



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