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CANTO in. PROGRESS OF THE MIND. R<i 



Earth at his feet extends her flowery bed, 

 And bends her silver blossoms round his head; 

 Dark clouds dissolve, the warring winds subside, 

 And smiling ocean calms his tossing tide, 

 O'er the bright morn meridian lustres play, 

 And Heaven salutes him with a flood of day. 



" Warm as the sun-beam, pure as driven snows, 

 The enamour'd GOD for young DIONE glows; 

 Drops the still tear, with sweet attention sighs, 

 And woos the Goddess with adoring eyes; 1QO 



Marks her white neck beneath the gauze's fold, 

 Her ivory shoulders, and her locks of gold; 

 Drinks with mute ecstacy the transient glow, 

 Which warms and tints her bosom's rising snow. 

 With holy kisses wanders o'er her charms, 

 And clasps the Beauty in Platonic arms; 



Earth at his feet, 1. 181. 



Te, Dea, te fugiunt venti, te nubila cceli, 

 Adventumque tuum ; tibi suaves da?dala tellus 

 Submittit flores; tibi rident zequora ponti; 

 Placatumque uitet diffuse lumine ccelum. Luc RET. 



