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Into those wreathy, Red-Sea shells,

Where Love himself, of old, lay sleeping; a
And now a Spirit formed, 'twould seem

Of music and of light,—so fair

So brilliantly his features beam,

And such a sound is in the air

Of sweetness when he waves his wings,—
Hovers around her, and thus sings:-

From CHINDARA's" warbling fount I come,
Called by that moonlight garland's spell;
From CHINDARA's fount, my fairy home,
Where in music, morn and night, I dwell.
Where lutes in the air are heard about,

And voices are singing the whole day long,

And every sigh the heart breathes out

Is turned, as it leaves the lips, to song!

Hither I come

From my fairy home,

And if there's a magic in Music's strain,

a «This idea (of deities living in shells) was not unknown to the Greeks, who represent the young Nerites, one of the Cupids, as living in shells on the shores of the Red Sea."-Wilford.

b"A fabulous fountain, where instruments are said to be constantly playing."-Richardson.

I swear by the breath

Of that moonlight wreath,

Thy Lover shall sigh at thy feet again.

For mine is the lay that lightly floats,
And mine are the murmuring, dying notes,
That fall as soft as snow on the sea,
And melt in the heart as instantly:-
And the passionate strain that, deeply going,
Refines the bosom it trembles through,

As the musk-wind, over the water blowing,
Ruffles the wave, but sweetens it too.

Mine is the charm, whose mystic sway
The Spirits of past Delight obey;—

Let but the tuneful talisman sound,

And they come, like Genii, hovering round.
And mine is the gentle song that bears,

From soul to soul, the wishes of love,

As a bird, that wafts through genial airs
The cinnamon-seed from grove to grove."

a "The Pompadour pigeon is the species, which, by carrying the fruit of the cinnamon to different places, is a great disseminator of this valuable tree."-See Brown's Illustr. Tab. 19.

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