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imminent. It is therefore natural that 

 Hero fliould affiduoufly ftrive to guard it 

 from the wind. Of that pi&urefquc cir- 

 cumftance Ovid did not avail himfelf. Our 

 modern Bard has been happier. 



So, on her fea-girt tower, fair Hero flood 

 At parting day, and mark'd the dafliing flood, 

 "While high in air, the glimmering roeks above, 

 Shone the bright lamp, the pilct-ffor of love. 

 With robe out-fpread, the waving flame behind, 

 She kneels, and guards it from the rifing wind j 

 Breathes to her Goddels * all her vows, and guide? 

 Her bold Leander o'er the dufky tides ; 

 Wrings his v/et hair, his briny bofom warms, 

 And clafps her daring lover in her arms. 



The charm of appropriation, as evinced 

 in the third couplet of the above paifage r 

 exifb only with the genuine Poet. Merc 

 tuneful verfifiers krjow nothing of it, they 

 reft in general defcription, and general de~ 

 fcription has been long fince exhaufled. 



* Hero \vr,s a Priefteft of V 



Genius 



