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her fomnifcrous palace is defcribed in thefe 

 lovely numbers : 



Sopha'd on filk, amid her charm-built towers, 

 Her meads of afphodel, and amaranth bowers, 

 Where Sleep and Silence guard the foft abodes, 

 In fullen apathy, Tapaver nods. 

 Faint o'er her couch, in fcintillating ftreams, 

 Fafs the light forms of Fancy and of Dreams. 



Her enchantments are poetically given 

 from old Tales of the Genii, and fhe i? 

 compared to Hermes driving the Ghofts to 

 the ihores of Erebus ; and again his em- 

 ployment to the drawings of Mifs Emma 

 Crew, a compliment of very forced intro- 

 duction. 



The Ciftus, a plant whofe tranfient, but 

 plenteous Sowers expand in fucceffion 

 on the firfl warmth of May, becomes a 

 Nymph, who calls her train to choir the 

 birth of that month. She is obeyed, and 

 a very exquifite fong enfues, in which the 

 altered meafure relieves the ear. Without 



any 



