DR. DARWIN. 357 



Pleas' d Lichfield liften'd from her facred bowers, 

 Bow'd her tall groves, and {hook her flately towers. 



The firft transformation of this Canto is 

 the Cereus grandiflora, of Jamaica, twenty 

 males one female. It flowers and becomes 

 odoriferous during a few hours in the night, 

 and then clofes to open no more. The 

 Cerea becomes a Maid of Night, contem- 

 plating it's " ftellar funs :" and fhe is 

 compared to the Fairy Queen of Mr. 

 Mundy's Poem, Need wood Foreft, in a 

 lovely ftrain, defcriptive of the Elfin So- 

 vereign/* Of fuch a pleating perfonage a 

 fecond portrait is welcome. The reader 

 may be gratified by comparing on this page 

 the pictures of Titania from two Poets of 

 whom StafFordfliire may be proud. 



NEEDWOOD FOREST. 



Hark the foft lute ! along the green 

 Moves, with majeftic ftep ; the Queen. 



2 A 3 Attendant 



