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By alter'd fanes, and namelefs villas glides, 

 And claflic domes, that tremble on his fides 5 

 Sighs o'er each broken urn and yawning tomb, 

 And mourns the fall of Liberty and Rome. 



Rivers being the iubjecT:, the Nile and 

 it's annual overflow, gives rile to grand 

 allegoric imagery, and to nobly-imagined 

 fcenes. That overflow is afcribed to the 

 monfoon winds, which deluge Nubia and 

 Abyflinia with rain. 



Sailing in air, when dark Monfoon enmrouds 

 His tropic mountains in a night of clouds 5 

 Or, drawn by whirlwinds, from the Line returns, 

 And fhowers on Afric all his thoufand urns j 

 High o'er his head the beams of Sirius glow, 

 And, dog of Nile, Anubis, barks below. 

 Nymphs, you from cliff to cliff attendant guide, 

 In headlong cataracts, the impetuous tide ; 

 Or lead o'er waftes of Abyffmian fands 

 The bright expanfe to Egypt's iliowerlefs lands. 



Her towns, her temples, and fultry plains 

 are contrafted with a fublime description 

 of Hecla and his burning mountain. It's 

 column of boiling water is transformed into 



a ma- 



