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fountains, wells, and lakes, are inftances of 

 that nice difcrimination which imparts fo 

 much vitality to verfe, and gives back to 

 the reader his faded recollection of the ob- 

 jeCts of nature in their comparative dif- 

 tinftions. Though he may have viewed 

 them often with unexamining eyes, yet no 

 fooner do they arife before him on the 

 poetic page than he recognifes their truth 

 with the thrill of delight ; for who that 

 looks into the records of the Mufes, how- 

 ever infenfible to the creations of Fancy, 

 can view without pleafure the faithfully 

 reflefled image of nature in the fubtle 

 variety of her lineaments. 



Thick as the dews which deck the morning flowers* 

 ' Or rain-drops twinkling in the fun-bright fhowers, 

 Fair nymphs, emerging in pellucid bands, 

 Rife, as me turns, and whiten all the lands. 



Their miftrefs tells them alfo, how much 

 flue is confcious of their power and ufe, in 

 the formation, fuftenance, and protection of 

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