202 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE 



because, towards the end, it alludes to a superstitious kind 

 of dread, with which the minds of men are always im- 

 pressed by such strange and unusual phaenomena. 



" -As when the sun, new risen, 



Looks through the horizontal, misty air, 

 Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, 

 In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds 

 On half the nations, and with fear of change 

 Perplexes monarchs ." 



