NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



Pinea fiemiferi capitis velamina quassans, 

 Unco saepe labro calamos percurri^hianteis, 

 Fistula silvestrem ne cesset fundere musam." * . 



LUCRETIUS, Lib. iv. 1. 576. 



' Whence may'st thou solve ingenuous ! to the world 

 The rise of echoes, formed in desert scenes, 

 'Mid rocks, and mountains, mocking every sound, 

 When late we wander through their solemn glooms, 

 And, with loud voice, some lost companion call. 

 And oft re-echoes echo till the peal 

 Rings seven times round ; so rock to rock repels 

 The mimic shout, reiterated close. 



' Here haunt the goat-foot satyrs, and the nymphs 

 As rustics tell, and fauns whose frolic dance, 

 And midnight revels oft, they say, are heard 

 Breaking the noiseless silence ; while soft strains 

 Melodious issue, and the vocal band 

 Strike to their madrigals the plaintive lyre. 

 Such, feign they, sees the shepherd obvious oft, 

 Led on by Pan, with pine-leaved garland crown'd 

 And seven mouth'd reed his labouring lip beneath, 

 Waking the woodland muse with ceaseless song." 



J. MASON GOOD. 



