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Journeying high, the silken castle glides 
Bright as a meteor through the azure tides ;, 
O’er towns and tow’rs, and temples, wins its way, 
Or mounts sublime, and gilds the vauit of day, 
Silent with upturn’d eyes, unbreathing crowds 
Pursue the floating wonder to the clouds ; it 
And, flush’d with transport, or benum’d with fear, 
Watch, as it rises, the diminish’d sphere. 4 
—Now less and less—and now a speck is seen ;—= 9 
And now ihe fleeting rack obtrudes between ! 
With bended knees, rais’d arms, and suppliant brew, 
To ev'ry shrine with mingl’d cries they vow.— 
“‘ Save him, ye saints! who o’er the good preside; 
‘« Bear him, ye winds! ye stars benignant, guide !” 
—The calm philosopher in ether sails, 
‘Views broader stars, and breathes in purer gales : 
Sees, like a map, in many a waving line 
Round earth’s blue plains her lucid waters shine ; 
Sees at his feet the forky lightnings glow, 
_And hears innocuous thunders roar below. 
Rise, great Montgolfier ! urge thy vent’rous flight 
High o'er the moon’s pale ice-reflected light ; 
High o’er the pearly star, whose beamy horn 
Hangs in the east, gay harbinger of morn ; 
Leave the red eye of Mars on rapid wing, 
Jove's silver guards, and Saturn’s crystal ting 5 
Leave the fair beams, which, issuing from afar, 
Play with new lustres round the Georgian star: 
Sbun with strong oars the sun’s attractive throne, 
The sparkling zodiac, and the milky zone ; 
Where headlong comets, with increasing force, 
Thro’ other systems, bend their blazing course.— 
For thee Cassiope her chair withdraws, 
For thee the Bear retracts his shaggy paws ; 
High cer the north thy golden orb shall roll, 
And blaze eternal round the wond’ring pole. 
‘So Argo, rising from the southern main, ; 
Lights with new stars the blue ethereal plain ; 
With fav’ring beams the mariner protects, _ 
And the bold course, which first it steer’d, directs. 
ELIZA. From the same. 
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© stood Eliza on the wood-crown’d height, 
O’er Minden’s plain, spectatress of the fight 5 
Sought with bold eye, amid the bloody strife, ; Ul 
_» Her dearer self, the partner of her life ; 
- So RS Gg4 From 
