Ut complexa manu madidos falis xquore crines 
Humidulis fpumas ftringit utraque comis 
Jam tibi nos Cypri, Juno inquit et innuba Pallas 
Cedimus, et formas premia defer imus.” 
Form’d in bold fancy by Apelles’ hand, 
See Venus on her native ocean (land. 
As from the wave in full-blown charms {he fprings, 
And from her hair the dropping moiflure wrings, 
Juno and Pallas view her with amaze: 
In filence on the lovely tablet gaze : 
No more at beauty’s envied prize repine, 
But to the pictur’d fair the willing palm refign. 
A ftill more beautiful defeription has, however, 
been given by Dr. Darwin in his celebrated poem 
The Botanic Garden. 
€f So young Dione, nurs’d beneath the waves, 
And rock’d by Nereids in their coral caves, 
Charm’d the blue filter hood with playful wiles, 
Lifp’d her fweet tones, and tried her tender fmiles. 
Then on her beryl throne by Tritons borne, 
Bright rofe the Goddefs like the {tar of morn; 
When w ith foft fires the milky daw n he leads, 
And wakes to life and love the laughing meads ; 
With rofy fingers, as uncurl’d they hung 
Round her fair brow, her golden locks flic wrung; 
O’er the fmooth furge on filver fandals flood, 
And look’d enchantment on the dazzled flood. 
The bright drops, rolling from her lifted arms, 
In flow' meanders wander o’er her charms, 
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Seek round her fnowy neck their lucid track, 
Pearl her white fhoulders, gem her ivory back, 
Round her fine waift and /'welling bofom fvvim, 
And ftar with glitt’ring brine each cryftal limb. 
Th’ immortal form enamour’d Nature hail’d, 
And Beauty blaz’d to heaven and earth unveil'd." 
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