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Fair glows her virgin cheek and modeft breaft, 



A panoply of fcales deforms the reft; 



Her quivering fins and panting gills fhe hides, 



But fpreads her filver arms upon the tides $ 



Slow as fhe fails, her ivory neck fhe laves, 



And makes her golden trefles o'er the waves. 



Charm'd round the Nymph, in circling gambols glide 



Four Nereid forms, or fhoot along the tide 5 



Now, all as one, they rife with frolic fpring, 



And beat the wondering air on humid wing; 



Now all defcending plunge beneath the main, 



And lafh it's foam with undulating train ; 



Above, below, they wheel, retreat, advance, 



In air and ocean weave the mazy dance ; 



Bow their quick heads, and point their diamond eyes, 



And twinkle to the fun with ever changing dyes. 



By this picture we are reminded of the 

 figure of Sin at the gates of hell. 



The one feeni'd woman to the waift, and fair, 

 But ended foul in many a fcaly fold, 



Voluminous and vaft ! 



MILTON'S Paradife Loft. 



The enfuing transformation conveys us 

 from the flat fliores of the Nile to the bafe 

 of the Andes. The plant is the Ocymum 



Salinum, 



