His naked bosom redden'd with the blow, 

 In such a blush as purple clusters show, 

 Ere yet the sun's autumnal heats refine 

 Their sprightly juice, and mellow it to wine. 

 The glowing beauties of his breast he spies, 

 And with a new redoubled passion dies. 

 As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run, 

 And trickle into drops before the sun; 

 So melts the Youth, and languishes away, 

 His beauty withers, and his limbs decay; 

 And none of those attractive charms remain, 

 To which the slighted Echo su'd in vain. 

 She saw him in his present misery, 

 Whom, spight of all her wrongs, she griev'd to see. 

 She answer'd sadly to the lover's moan, 

 Sigh'd back his sighs, and groan d to every groan; 

 Ah youth! belov'd in vain/' Narcissus cries; 

 Ah youth! belov'd in vain," the Nymph replies. 

 " Farewel," says he; the parting sound scarce fell 

 From his faint lips, but she replied cc Farewel." 

 Then on th' wholesome earth he gasping lies, 

 Till death shuts up those self-admiring eyes. 

 To the cold shades his flitting ghost retires, 

 And in the Stygian waves itself admires. 

 For him the Naiads and the Dryads mourn, 

 Whom the sad Echo answers in her turn ; 

 And now the Sister-nymphs prepare his urn ; 

 When, looking for his corpse, they only found 

 A rising Stalky with yellow Blossoms crown d. 





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Ovid. 



April 20, the Hyacinth (Uyacinthis) flowers. 



This plant, like most of the others of spring extraction, in its wild state, hangs down its 

 azure bells, and having a delightful scent, is one of the most agreeable gifts that Providence has 

 bestowed upon mortals, whom the enraptured admirer of Flowers thus elegantly invites. 



AN EASTERN ODE. 



Child of the Spring, thou charming Flow'r, 



No longer in confinement lie, 

 Arise to light, thy form discover, 



Rival the azure of the sky. 



The rains are gone, the storms are o'er; 



Winter retires to make thee way : 

 Come then, thou sweetly blooming flow'r ; 



Come, lovely stranger, come away. 



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