55

60

Velivolus Tamisis, flaventisque Indus arenæ,
Euphratesque, Tagusque, et opimo flumine Ganges,
Undas quisque suas volvens, cursuque sonoro
In mare prorumpunt: hos magno acclinis in antro
Excipit Oceanus, natorumque ordine longo
Dona recognoscit venientûm, ultròque serenat
Cæruleam faciem, et diffuso marmore ridet.
Haud aliter species properant se inferre novellæ
Certatim menti, atque aditus quino agmine com-
plent.

65

Primas tactus agit partes, primusque minutæ Laxat iter cæcum turbæ, recipitque ruentem. Non idem huic modus est, qui fratribus: amplius ille Imperium affectat senior, penitusque medullis, Visceribusque habitat totis, pellîsque recentem Funditur in telam, et latè per stamina vivit. Necdum etiam matris puer eluctatus ab alvo Multiplices solvit tunicas, et vincula rupit ; Sopitus molli somno, tepidoque liquore Circumfusus adhuc : tactus tamen aura lacessit

70

V. 59. "Te tuus Oceanus natali gurgite lassum Excipit," Claud. vii. 176.

V. 60. "Dona recognoscit populorum," Virg. Æn. viii.

721.

V. 61. "Diffuso lumine ridet," Lucret. iii. 22.
V. 69. So Pope. Essay on Man, i. 217:

"The spider's touch, so exquisitely fine,
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line."

V. 70. "Tum porro puer.-Nixibus ex alvo matris natura profudit," Lucret. v. 223. "Cum veteres ponunt tunicas," Ibid. iv. 56.

V. 80. "Cupidisque amplectitur ulnis, Ovid. Met. xi. 63. V. 81. "Nam simul ac species patefacta est verna diei!" Lucret. i. x.

DE PRIN

Jamdudum levior se

Idque magis simul,
Frigore mutavit co
Impete inassuetos
Humanæque comes
Cunctantem frustr

Corripit invadens,
Tum species prim
(Usque vices adeò
Exaequat, justâqu
Tum primùm, ign
Carmine quo,

Progenies, ortum

Ut per prata lev
Purpureum Veri
Pingis, et umbr
Gratia te, Vene
Formarumque c

At

caput invisu

Abdidit, horrendæque simul Formidinis ora,

Pervigilesque æstus Curarum, atque anxius Angor.

Undique lætitiâ florent mortalia corda,

Purus et arridet largis fulgoribus Æther.

Perspiciet, vis quant

95

Juncture quis bonos
Lamina conjurant in
Nec minor in gem

Omnia nec tu ideò invalidæ se pandere Menti
(Quippe nimis teneros posset vis tanta diei
Perturbare, et inexpertos confundere visus)
Nec capere infantes animos, neu cernere credas 100
Tam variam molem, et miræ spectacula lucis:
Nescio quâ tamen hæc oculos dulcedine parvos
Splendida percussit novitas, traxitque sequentes ;
Nonne videmus enim, latis inserta fenestris
Sicubi se Phoebi dispergant aurea tela,
Sive lucernarum rutilus colluxerit ardor,
Extemplo hùc obverti aciem, quæ fixa repertos
Haurit inexpletum radios, fruiturque tuendo.

105

110

Altior huic verò sensu, majorque videtur
Addita, Judicioque arctè connexa potestas,
Quod simul atque ætas volventibus auxerit annis,
Hæc simul, assiduo depascens omnia visu,

V. 93. "Subit horrida mentem formido," Sil. Ital. x.
544; Lucret. vi. 253. "Curarum fluctuat æstu," Virg.

En. viii. 19. xii. 535.

V. 94. Lucret. iii. 1006, "Exest anxius angor." Luke.
V. 96. " Improviso vibratus ab Æthere fulgor," Virg.

Æn. viii. 524.

V. 102. "Nescio qua præter solitum dulcedine læti,”
Virg. Georg. i. 413.

V. 104. "Plena per insertas fundebat luna fenestras,"
Virg. Æn. iii. 152.

V. 105. "Lucida tela diei," Lucret. i. 128.

V. 108. "Expleri mentem nequit, ardescitque tuendo,"
Virg. Æn. i. 713.

V. 113. "Tantum series, juncturaque pollet," Horat. Art.

Nec tantum in curv

Hinc atque hinc (u

Aeriis invecta rotis
Scilicet Eloquio ha
Et mulcere dedit d
Verbaque metiri n
Repperit, et quicq
Calliope quotiès,
Evolvat liquidum
Inspiret dulces a
At medias fau
Gustus habet, q
Luxuries, dona
Naribus inter
Docta leves ca