Ut complexa manu madidos falis zequore crines 
Humidulis fpumas ftringit utraque comis 
Jam tibi nos Cypri, Juno inquit et innuba Pallas 
Cedimus, et formae praemia deferimus." 
Form'd in bold fancy by Apelles' hand, 
See Venus on her native ocean ftand. 
As from the wave in full-blown charms fhe fprings, 
And from her hair the dropping moifture wrings, 
Juno and Pallas view her with amaze : 
In filence on the lovely tablet gaze : 
No more at beauty’s envied prize repine, 
But to the pictur'd fair the willing palm refign. 
A ftill more beautiful defcription has, however, 
en given by Dr. Darwin in his celebrated poem 
[ur Botanic GARDEN. 
** So young Dione, nurs'd beneath the waves, 
And rock'd by Nereids in their coral caves, 
Charm'd the blue fifterhood with playful wiles, 
Lifp'd her fweet tones, and tried her tender fmiles. 
Then on her beryl throne by Tritons borne, 
Bright rofe the Goddefs like the ftar of morn ; 
When with foft fires the milky dawn he leads, 
And wakes to life and love the laughing meads ; 
With rofy fingers, as uncurl’d they hung 
Round her fair brow, her golden locks fhe wrung ; 
O'er the finooth furge on filver fandals ftood, 
And look’d enchantment on the dazzled flood. 
The bright drops, rolling from her lifted arms, 
In flow meanders wander o’er her charms, 
Seek round her fnowy neck their lucid track, 
Pearl her white fhoulders, gem her ivory back, 
Round her fine waift and fwelling bofom fwim, 
And ftar with glitt'ring brine each cryftal limb. 
Th’ immortal form enamour'd Nature hail'd, 
And Beauty blaz'd to heaven and earth unveil’d.” 
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