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WTien Zoftera, GrafTwrack, (which gr 

 at the bottom of the ocean, aud, rifmg to it's 

 top, covers many leagues with it's, leaves,) 

 comes forth from beneath the wand of this 

 potent magician, we meet one of the hap- 

 pieft fallies of his fportive pen. She is 

 fhown as Queen of the coral groves ; her 

 palace in the fea, fupported on cryftal 

 columns ; it's turrets roofed with lucid 

 {hells, which dart their every-coloured rays 

 afar into the deep; the fhadows on it's 

 floor, philofophically defcribed from the 

 rifing and breaking of the exterior billows ; 

 the rrierrnaid-:tram enweaving orient pearls 

 in her hair ; her fhooting up to the furface 

 like a meteor ; afcending the ftrand, and 

 fummoning, by a loud-ftruck fhell, her 

 fea-born lovers to attend her progrefs ; 

 creative imagination, the high and peculiar 

 province of the genuine Poet, has few 

 more beautiful creations than this marine 

 pidure and fcene, 



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