That kiss for which, if worlds were mine, That mould, so fine, so pearly bright, Of which luxurious Heaven hath cast her, And Lamia's lip that warbled there! Can learn to wake their wildest thrilling! And when that thrill is most awake, And when you think Heaven's joys await you, TO MRS. ON SOME CALUMNIES AGAINST HER CHARACTER. Is not thy mind a gentle mind? Is not thy heart a heart refined? Hast thou not every blameless grace, That man should love or Heaven can trace? Though some thy heart hath harboured near Though man, who ought to shield thy fame, 'This alludes to a curious gem, upon which Claudian has left some pointless epigrams. It was a drop of pure water enclosed within a piece of crystal. See Claudian. Epigram, de Chrystallo cui aqua inerat. Addison mentions a curiosity of this kind at Milan; he also says It is such a rarity as this that I saw at Vendôme in France, which they there pretend is a tear that our Saviour shed over Lazarus, and was gathered up by an angel, who put it in a little crystal vial, and made a present of it to Mary Magdalen.Addison's Remarks on several parts of Italy. In liquid purity was found, Though all had grown congealed around; HYMN OF A VIRGIN OF DELPHI, AT THE TOMB OF HER MOTHER. In holy musings shall we roam, Guide of my heart! to memory true, Thy looks, thy words, are still my own I see thee raising from the dew Some laurel, by the wind o'erthrown, Though sunk a while the spirit lies, Thy words had such a melting flow, They dropped like heaven's serenest snow, Fond sharer of my infant joy! Is not thy shade still lingering here? 1 The laurel, for the common uses of the temple, for adorning the altars and sweeping the pavement, was supplied by a tree near the fountain of Castalia, but upon all important occasions they sent to Tempé for their laurel. We find in Pausanias that this valley supplied the branches of which the temple was originally constructed; and Plutarch says, in his Dialogue on Music, The youth who brings the Tempic laurel to Delphi is always attended by a player on the fute. Αλλά μην και τῳ κατακομίζοντι παιδί την Τεμπικήν δαφνην εις Δελφους παρομαρτεί αυλήTηs. Our nymphs awaked the choral lay, And danced around Cassotis' fount; And guiding every mazy tread ! Flow, Plistus, flow; thy murmuring wave Upon so pure, so blest a grave, To memory so divinely dear! RINGS AND SEALS. Ώσπερ σφραγίδες τα φιλήματα.-Achilles Tatius, lib. ri. Ou word or look, on oath or sigh. Take back the gifts, so sweetly given, With promised faith and vows to Heaven; I took the ring-the seal I took, There are gardens, supposed to be those of King Solomon, in the neighbourhood of Bethlehem. The friars show a fountain which, they say, is the "sealed fountain" to which the holy spouse in the Canticles is compared; and they pretend a tradition, that Solomon shut up these springs and put his signet upon the door, t keep them for his own drinking.'-Maundrell' Travels. See also the Notes to Mr. Good's Translation of the Song of Solomon. |