...wand extend, •Ami white-rub M Innocence from heav'n descend. 2* Swift fly the years, and rise the expected morn ! Oh spring to light, auspicious Babe!...bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring; IMITATIONS. u Now the Virgin returns, now the kingdom of Saturn returns, DnW 1' new progeny is sent...

...And white-rob'd innocence from heav'n descend,. Swift fly the years, and rise th' expected morn; O spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born ! See nature...bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring: See lofty Lebanon his head advance, See nodding forests on the mountains dance, See spicy clouds from...

...fly the years, and rise the expected morn ! Oh spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born I xxxv. 2. See nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring : See lofty Lebanon his head advance, See nodding forests on the mountains dance ; See spicy clouds...

...olive wand extend, And white-rob'd Innocence from heav'n descend. 20 Swift fly the years, and rise the expected morn ! Oh spring to light, auspicious Babe...bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring ; See lofty Lebanon his head advance, 25 See nodding forests on the mountains dance ; See spicy clouds...

...scale ; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And while-roh'd Innocence from heaven descend. Swift fly the years, and rise th' expected morn ! Oh spring to light, auspicious Bahe ! he horn. See Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to hring, With all the incense of the hreathing...

...the world her olive wand extend. And white-roh'd Innocence from heaven descend. Swift fly the yenrs, and rise th' expected morn! Oh spring to light, auspicious...bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring: See lofty Lehanon his head advance, See nodding forests on the mountains dance: See spicy clouds from...

...And white-rob 'd innocence from heav'n descend. Swift fly the years, and rise th' expected morn ; O spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born! See nature...bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring : See lofty Lebanon his head advance, See nodding forests on the mountains dance, See spicy clouds...

...original, are in a few passages weakened and diminished by florid epithets, and useless circumlocutions. See, Nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring,* are lines which have too much prettiness, and too modern an air. The judicious addition of circumstances...

...-rCh.xiv.rer. 8. JCh.xsr.rer. 4. J Ch. ix. ver, 7. thrift fly tbe years, and rise the' expected morn ! 0 spring to light, auspicious babe! be born. See Nature...bring, With all the incense of the breathing spring ; See * lofty Lebanon his head advance, See nodding forests on the mountains dance : See spicy clouds...

...scale; Pence o'er the world her olive wand extend, And wlntc-roh'd Innocence from heav'n descend. SO Swift fly the years, and rise th' expected morn! Oh, spring to light, auspicious Bahe! he horn. See Nature hastes her earliest wreatbs to hring, With all the incense of the hreathing...