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From Orkney's flormy fteep 

 The fpirit of ths ifles infuriate came ; 



Round him flam'd the ar&ic flame, 

 His dark cloud lhadow'd the contentious deep ! 



This Ode was publiflied in 1788. The 

 Economy of Vegetation in 1791. 



That poem proceeds with another ex- 

 hortation to the etherial Cohorts to protecl 

 the vernal children ; impart the talifman 

 which guides the veering winds, and, by 

 it's influence, enchain Boreas and Eurus, 

 fo often fatal to early luxuriance, vegetable 

 and animal. Thus mall they, (he beau- 

 tifully fays, 



Rock th' uncurtain'd cradle of the year. 



The deftrudion and reproduction of the 

 aoofphere, is allegorifed by a monfter of 

 magnitude more immenfe than that of 

 Satan, when, on the page of Milton, he 

 {hides from hill to hill. This is a Came- 

 lion beneath the northern conftellation. 

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