MEMOIRS OP 



defcription of the Dor-moufe, and it's 

 half-year's flumber, adorns that paflage. 



Colchicum Autumnale, or Autumnal* 

 meadow- fweet, afcends amid the troubled 

 air, with her attendant lovers. Thus emi- 

 nent in beauty is the flellar fimile for that 

 flower : 



So {nines, with filver guards, the Georgian flar, 

 And drives, on Night's blue arch, his glittering car j 

 Hangs o'er the billowy clouds his lucid form, 

 Wades through the mill, and dances in the ftorm. 



The Helianthus, or Sun-flower, becomes 

 a Dervife, and leads his devout trains to 

 worfhip the rifmg orb of day. Since the 

 head of that majeftic plant always, and by 

 nutation, follows the courfe of the fun, it 

 properly aflumes the name and habits of a 

 Dervife or Bramin. With this and the 

 three fucceeding metamorphofes, in them- 

 felves full of beauty and grace, the Drofera, 

 or Sun-dew, the Lonicera, or Honey-fuckle, 

 the Alpine Draba, fweet traits of con- 



trafted 



