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Hence, not only the gramm^tic error would 

 have been dene away, but the grating 

 found, produced by the near alliteration 

 of the harfh dr, in " <fread ^/rearn," re- 

 moved, by placing thofe words at a greater 

 diftance from each other. 



This alteration was, for the fame reafon, 

 rejected. The Doftor would not fpare the 

 word hovering) which he faid ftrengthened 

 the piAure ; but furely the image ought 

 not to be elaborately precife, by which a 

 dream is transformed into an animal, with 

 black wings. 



Soon after Mrs. Pole's recovery from 

 her dangerous illnefs, Dr. Darwin wrote 

 the following little poem. 



ODE TO THE RIVER DERWENTy 



Written in a romantic Falley near its source. 



Derwcnt, what fcenes thy wandering waves behold, 

 As burfting from thine hundred fprings they ftray, 

 And down thefe vales, in founding torrents roll'd, 



Seek to the fhining Eaft their mazy Way ! 



Here 



