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and animates floral enumeration with 

 gleams of every-regioned landfcape. 



The Sylphs are then commanded to raife 

 an altar to Hygeia ; to call to it's rites the 

 difperfed Sifterhood, the Water Nymphs, 

 from their floating clouds, their waves and 

 fountains; to ftamp with charmed foot, 

 and convoke the Gnomes from their fub- 

 terranean palaces ; and to beckon from 

 their fpheres the veftal forms of fire ; that 

 thus, in full congregation, they may win 

 the Goddefs of Health with unwearied 

 vows. The pidurefque attitudes of fupplU 

 cation, which ihe dictates, are eminently 

 beautiful ; and, with a patriotic apoftrophe 

 to Hygeia, the Britifh Queen of Botany 

 concludes her embafly. 



O wave, Hygeia, o'er Britannia's throne 

 Thy ferpent-wand, and mark it for thy own ! 

 Lead round her breezy coafts thy guardian trains, 

 Her nodding forefts, and her waving plains ! 

 Shed o'er her peopled realms thy beamy fmile, 

 And with thy airy temple crown her ifle I 



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