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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: So bright, the folding canopy undrawn, Glides the gilt Landau o'er the velvet lawn, Of beaux and belles difplays the glittering throng, And foft airs fan them, as they roll along. Where frowning Snowden bends his dizzy brow O'er Conway, liflening to the furge below; Retiring Lichen climbs the topmoft ftone, And drinks the aerial folitude alone.? 348 Bright fhine the ftars unnumber'd oer her head, And the cold moon-beam gilds her flinty bed; While round the rifted rocks hoarfe whirlwinds breathe, And dark with thunder fail the clouds beneath.? Lichen. 1. 347. Calcareum. Liver-wort. Clandeftine Marriage. This plant is the firft that vegetates on naked rocks, covering them with a kind of tapeltry, and draws its nourifh- ment perhaps chiefly from the air; after it perifhes, earth enough is left for other mofles to root themfelves; and after fome ages a foil is produced fufficient for the growth of more fucculent and large vegetables. In this manner perhaps the whole earth has been gradually covered with vegetation, after it was raifed out of the primeval ocean by fubterraneous fires. The fteepy path her plighted fwain purfues, And tracks her light ftep o'er the imprinted dews; Delighted Hymen gives his torch to blaze, Winds round the craggs, and lights the mazy ways; Sheds o'er their fecret vows his influence chafte, And decks with rofes the admiring wafte. High in the front of heaven when Sirius glares, And o'er Britannia makes his fiery hairs: 360 When no foft mower defcends, no dew diftills, Her wave-worn channels dry, and mute her rills; When droops the fickening herb, the bloflbm fades, And parch'd earth gapes beneath the withering glades; With languid ftep fair Dypsaca retreats, Fall, gentle dews the fainting nymph repeats, Dypfacus. 1. 3...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217113359 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217113354 |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 98 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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