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6 Then with white vi'lets shall my brows be 
crown’d, 
With anise-wreaths, or rosy garlands, bound ; 
Then, at my hearth, the Prtelean bow! be © 
guait'd, 
And the parch’d bean add flavour to the 
draught. 
Then, as my elbows high, my couch shall 
swell, 
Of parsley form’d, and golden asphodel.” 
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‘There, in kind courtesy, our host had 
spread 
Of vine and lentisk the refreshing bed ; 
Their breez¥ coolness elms and poplars gave, 
And rills their murmur from the naiad’s 
cave. 
Cicadas now, retiring from the sun, | 
Amidst the shady shrubs their song begun3 
From the thick copse we heard, far off and 
lone, 
The mellow’d shrillness of the woodlark’s 
tone: 
Warbled the linnet and the finch more near, 
And the soft-sighing turtle sooth’d the ear ; 
The yellow bees humm’d sweetly in the 
shade, 
And round the fountain’s flow’ry margin 
play’d.” p03: 
Za idyllium the ninth: 
ss My bed 
‘Beside the cooling waters have I spread 5 
And the smocth skins of milk-white heifers 
form 
Its soft repose.—-Alas! the southern storm 
Down yonder shrubby steep those heifers 
flung, 
Yon mount, where, cropping arbutus, they 
hung.” p. 86. 
Every where, in short, Theocritus has 
the art of bringing the fine scenery, 
where his shepherds and other charac. 
ters converse, directly before our eyes. 
In the Hylas, (dyllium thirteenth, ) 
are many descriptive lines: 
6¢ Straight, in the bosom of a lowly dell, 
He found, beset with plants, a shaded well. 
On its cool marge the fringing herbage grew ; 
The mingling dyes of celandine so blue, 
With verdurous parsley, maidenhair’s bright 
green, 
And vervain; while amid the wat’ry scene 
Naiads, the dread of every rustic wight, 
Led the gay dance, and revell’d thru’ the 
night.” p- 104. 
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‘¢ E’en as the lion, if, far off, a fawn 
Cry with sad plaint along the dusky lawn, 
Starts from the covert of his mountain-wood, 
And rushes on his ready feast of bload.” 
p- 106. 
And warble thus the choral lay.” 
Epigrams, Fragments, Kc. from the Greek. 293 
There is a pren variety of description 
in the fifteenth idyllium : 
«¢ Ere the morn 
Shall dry the dews that gem the thorn, 
His image to the shore we’ll bear, 
With robes unzon’d, and flowing hair, 
With bosoms open’d to the day, 
p. 193. 
In “ Castor and Pollux,” (idyllium 
twenty-second :) 
‘¢ Behold the loosen’d tempests swell the 
tide, 7", 
Lash the high helm, and bulge each bursting 
sila, 
And pour into the poop the mountain- 
surge, 
Whilst the rent vessel reels upon the verge 
Of fate; its torn sails hanging in the blast, 
And wildly dash’d around each shtkes “d- 
mast ! 
Clouds big with hail the midnight heavens 
dein: 
And thé broad ocean thunders to the storm. 
But ye, tho’ now the closing waves pursue, 
Ye rescue from the chasm the dying crew. 
Lo! the clouds break; their scatter’d frage 
ments fly, 
While the drear winds in whispering mur- 
murs die ; 
And each mild star that marks the tranquil 
night, 
Gilds the reposing wave with friendly light.” 
Pp. 159. 
¢¢ The pebbles sparkled to the light, 
As crystal, or as polish’d silver, bright: 
Beside this spot, the plane-tree quivering 
play’d, 
And pensive poplars wav'd a paler shade 5 
While many a fir in living verdure grew, 
And the deep cypress darken’d on the view 5 
And there, each flower that marks the balmy 
close 
Of spring, the little bee’s ambrosia, blows.” 
Pp: 160. 
‘© On his strong brawny’ arms the muscles 
stood, 
Like rocks, that, rounded by the torrent 
flood, 
Thro’ the clear wave their shelving ridges 
show, 
One smooth and polish’d prominence below.” 
p. 16%. 
The fourth Epigram of ‘Theocritus, 
reminds us of Akenside’s Inscriptions: 
~~ *¢ Near, a hallow’d fane 
Low rises 3 aud a sweet perenaial spring 
Flows trickling from the tiving roel, that 
gleams 
Thro’? bowering laurel, myrtles, and the 
shrub 
Of odour’d cypress; where the clustering 
vine 
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