204: PROSERPINA. 



external influences, with the reciprocal power of trans- 

 formation, in the organs of the plant ; and the infinite 

 powers of moral training and mental conception over the 

 nativity of animals, should be so restrained within im- 

 passable limits, and by inconceivable laws, that from 

 generation to generation, under all the clouds and revo- 

 lutions of heaven with its stars, and among all the calam- 

 ities and convulsions of the Earth with her passions, the 

 numbers and the names of her Kindred may still be 

 counted for her in unfailing truth ; still the fifth sweet 

 leaf unfold for the Rose, and the sixth spring for the 

 Lily ; and yet the wolf ra^e tameless round the folds of 

 the pastoral mountains, and yet the tiger flame through 

 the forests of the night. 



