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Till life’s laf morn, fo oft implor’d! halk 
rife; 
Then from my quvéetflumber let me ftart; 
Revive one hour to fupplicate the fkies, 
Then, joyful hence, on Hofe’sfoft wings, 
depart. 

TIBULLUS, ELEGY II. B. 2 
ITH gratulations hail thisnatalday, 
Virgins, and youths, and all the 
altars round, 
Burn incenfe on the heart, and fweets dif- 
play, 
In wanton Arab’s bleffed region found. 
To view his rights thy Genius’ felf allure, 
Inwreath with fpringing flowers his 
locks divine, 
And while his brow diftills with odours 
pure, 
Serve him with fineft meal and copious 
wine, 
_ Thy prayer, Cornutus, may he freely grant! 
Hafte, why fo timid? afk; behold, he 
nods. 
A wife’s true love, I augur, is thy want; 
I fee, it is the edict of the Gods. 
Nor would’ft thou rather on the globe 
what fields 
Ploughs with his fturdy team the hardy 
fwain ; 
Nor all the gems which happy India 
yields, 
Where glows the billow of the eaftern 
main. 
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Bleffings defeend. O that, with ruffling 
wings, [bear f 
Love would the golden bands of Hymen 
Bands, which remain, while age her fur- 
rows brings (hair. 
With tardy pace, and filvers o’er the 
‘Then, may the power that over-ruled thy 
birth, 
With progeny our lovelieft wihhes greet, 
And fend, to fpread around a fcene of 
mirth, [feet ? 
A youthful troop, to gambol at thy 

THE EPHEMERA. 
HEER’D with the fmile of morn, 
the infect flies, 
In all the colours of the heavenly bow: 
What t eauty’s choice attire fo charms the 
eyes, 
Or rearl of India has a finer glow? 
His fpace of life is but a tranfient day ; 
Born with the rMing fun, from flower 
to flower 
Till noon he gaily wings his airy way 
Then dies beneath a drop of vernal 
fhower. 
Like the Ephemera we daily breathe 
Air that is oft-times pregnant with dif- 
eale; 
We die by accident, or force beneath, 
In youth, by field or flood, or in the feas, 
My love! in death why fhould the youth 
complain 
More than the infect in the drop of rain. - 
WILL1aM EVANs. 
ERRATA in Elegy 3d. of “ pursuit oF QUIET,” page 338 of this volume, ftanza 2” 
line 2, for “ nurfed fuch,” read “ each.’— Stanza 5, end of laft line, for“ ?” read “ / rs 
—Sanza 12, end of line 2, for “ 2” read “/”—Stanza 14, laft line, for “ unfold” read 
6 jn fold.” — Stanza 24, line 2, for “ impair” read, “ impain.” 
The reader is defired to correct the following errata in Mr. Wakeficld’s “ appREss 
TO PEACE,” page 438, line 15, for “ of feftive ftrains,” read “ and f2ftive ftrains.”"— 
Line ult. for “ treafoas” read “ weapons.” 


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NATIONAL INSTITUTE of FRANCE. 
LACEPEDE read a memoir on 
o the different fpecies of quadru- 
peds called Ant-Eaters. Gmelin hasmade 
four fpecies of Myrmecophages, not in- 
cluding that of the Cape, which Geof- 
froy has made a new genus, with the 
name Orydferope. Of thele four, the fe- 
cond (M. Tridacyla) has only been de- 
duced from fome mutilated fpecimens of 
the fourth (the M. $udbata) and fhould 
therefore be erafed from the lift. Buffon 
has indeed given a figure of the third (M. 
Tetradaétyla), or what he makes his Ta- 
manduady {9 different from that of Seba, 
that it might be eafily taken for another 
fpecies. But we are now fatisfied that this 
figure was drawn from a factitious animal 
made up of the ftuffed fkin of the Coati, 
upon which had -been glued alternate pa-. 
rallel bands of black and yellow from the 
fkin of another animal. The true Tazan- 
dua reprefented by Seba is an animal with 
a yellow or ruffet-coloured fkin, fhort 
{mooth fhining and rather ftiff pelt, fome- 
what turning back on the fhoulder, form- 
ing an oblique line, which the figures 
ufually reprefent as a fpot. The extremity 
of the tail is naked, fealy, and prehenfile 
for half its length, One variety is men~ 
tioned 
