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And lifts them from their flat aeral ground 

 Warm as the life, and as the ftatue round. 

 I* 1 fil yer clouds in aether's blue domain, 



opake Bodies m 



with uannu- Qr the clear mirror of the watry plain 410 



cfat ones. * * 



If chance fome folid fubftance claim a place, 

 Firm and opaque amid the lucid fjpace, 

 Rough let it fwell and boldly meet the fight, 

 Mark'd with peculiar ftrength of fhade and light ; 

 There blend each earthy tint of heavieft fort, 415 

 At once to give confiftence and fupport, 

 While the bright wave, foft cloud, or azure fky, 

 Light and pellucid from that fubftance fly. 



Hos velut ex ipsa natura immotus eodem 

 Intuitu circum ftatuas daret inde rotundas, 

 ixxn. Denfa figurarum folidis qua? corpora formic 



Corpora denfa 



& opaca cumSubdita funt tadlu, non tranflucent, fed opaca 



itanflucenti- 



Jn tranflucendi fpatio ut fuper aera, nubes, 



Limpida ftagna undarum, & inania ccetera debent 



Afperiora illis prope circumftantibus efle ; 



Ut diftincfla magis firmo cum lumine & umbra, 



Et gravioribus ut fuftenta coloribus, inter 



Aerias fpecies fubfiftant femper opaca ; 



Sed contra, procul abfcedunt perlucida, denfis 



Corporibus leviora ; utt nubes, aer, & 



