MEMOIRS 



Spring welcomes her with fragrance and 

 with fbng, and, to receive her commiffions, 

 the four Elements attend. They are alle- 

 gorifed as 'Gnomes, Water-Nymphs, Sylphs, 

 and Nymphs of Fire. Her addrefs to each 

 clafs, and the bufinefs fhe allots to them, 

 form the four Cantos of this firft part of 

 the poem. 



The Ladies of Ignition receive her pri- 

 mal attention. The picture with which 

 her addrefs commences, is of confummate 

 brilliance and grace ; behold it, reader, and 

 judge if this praife be too glowing ! 



Nymphs of primeval fire, your veftal train 

 Hung with gold trelTes o'er the vafl inane ; 

 Pierc'd with your filver Ihafts the throne of night, 

 And charm'd young Nature's opening eyes with light, 

 When Love Divine, with brooding wings unfurl'd, 

 Call'd from the rude abyfs the living world. 



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The Darwinian creation, which enfues, 

 charms us infinitely, even while we recoi- 



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