362 MEMOIRS OF 



the web of Human Deftiny, " the cradle 

 " and the coffin binding it's ends;" but the 

 Lady is here in her kindeft mood, aufpi- 

 cious Fortune turning the giddy wheel ; 



But if fweet Love, with baby- fingers, twines, 

 And wets, with dewy lips, the lengthening lines, 

 Skein after Ikein celeftial tints unfold, 

 And all the filken tiflue fliines with gold. 



Galanthus Nivalis, Snow-drop, fix males 

 one female, is introduced as a delicate and 

 fprightly lady, playing amidft a wintery 

 fcene of filent floods, white hills, and glit- 

 tering meadows. She chides the tardy 

 Spring, and commands the Weft Wind to 

 ftretch his folded pinions. She awakens 

 the hoarfe Cuckow in his gloomy cavern, 

 calls the wondering Dormoufe from his 

 temporary grave ; bids the mute Redbreaft 

 enliven the budding groves, and the plighted 

 Ringdove coo. The Redbreaft, however, 

 is not mute amid the hybernal filence of 

 nat ire, he warbles on the hoary fpray. 



Bellis 



