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With meafur'd flep the Fairy Sovereign treads, 

 Shakes her high plume, and glitters o'er the meads $ 

 Round each green holly leads her fportive train, 

 And little footfteps mark the circled plain j 

 Each haunted rill with filver voices rings, 

 And Night's fweet bird in livelier accent, tings. 



The next floral animation, the Tropoe* 

 olum Majus, Garden Nafturtion, eight 

 males one female, is introduced by thefe 

 lovely lines : 



Ere the bright Star which leads the morning Iky 

 Hangs o'er the milky Eaft it's diamond eye, 

 The chafte Tropceo leaves her fecret bed j 

 A faint-like glory trembles round her head j 



alluding to the " eleftric flafhes, which 

 " Mifs E. C. Linneus firft obferved about 

 " this flower in a fummer morning, before 

 " fun-rife." Aplenty and pompofilluf- 

 tration is allotted to this flower ; firft the 

 fire-fly of the tropics ; next the ignis-fatuus, 

 which Dr. Darwin had deemed fabulous ; 

 and laft the intrepid Youths of Judea, con- 

 2, A 4 demned 



