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TENERIFFE. 
But oh, belov'd by heav'n ! reserv'd to thee 
" A happier lot the smiling fates decree : 
" Free from that law, beneath whose mortal sway 
" Matter is chang'd and varying forms decay ; 
" Elysium shall be thine ; the blissful plains 
" Of utmost earth, where Radamanthus reigns. 
Joys ever young, unmix'd with pain or fear, 
" Fill the wide circle of th' eternal year ; 
" Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime ; 
" The fields are florid with unfading prime ; 
" From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, 
" Mould the round hail or flake the fleecy snow ^ 
" But from the breezy deep the blest inhale 
" The fragrant murmurs of the western gale." 
