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ch ilarat . ed me more Jhan the barren circles of men , from whose hearts and whose souls no tones are emitted !
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4 . The dying Sican .
44 c t I alone then be without . song znd dumb , '* said the silent Swan , sighing-, as he bathed himself in the splendour of the setting" sun , a I , almost alone , in the whole kingdom of feathered swarms . It is not the clucking hen , or the prattling goose , or the screaming
peacock , whose voice 1 desire ; but they gentle Philomela , thee I envy , when enchanted by thy magic notes , I more slowly circuit the lake , and fascinated , loiter amid the glories of the scene . How 1 would sing thee , thou golden cvening » , saiw , thy beauteous light and my felicity ; dying , I would plunge beneath
the mirror of thy rose -like forehead , " In silent rapture the Swan dived below , and as he rose again upon the surface , he beheld on the shore a shining form , which benignly invited him to approach . It was the god of the
morning and evening sun , the beautiful Phoebus . c < Chaste and lovely being * said he , the pra > er is granted thee , which thou hast so often nourished in thy silent breast and which could not be granted till now . ** He had scarcely said these words when he touched the Swan with
Jus lyre , and tuned upon it the , music of the immortals . The tones pierced with rapture the bird of Apollo , who in grateful joy and in harmony , with the god of beauty , sang the beautiful sun , and the splendid sea , and his innocent and blissful life . His harmonious song was soft as his form , it lasted in slow
and gently enslumbering notes till he found himself again in his true and heavenly beauty , at the foot of Apollo in Klysium . The song which was denied mm in life was given him in death , it was destined gently to dissolve his corporal limbs for he had then heard the music of the immortals and had seen the
vjsage of a god . He gratefully clung to the foot of Apollo , and was hearkening to his divine notes , as his faithful spouse arrived , who had in mournful strains sang herself into Elysium , The goddefcs of innocence adopted both as her favourites ; she places them in the yoke before her car , when she bathes in the s . eadf youth . '
\ Be patient ; silent and hoping heart wjiat if denied thee in life , because thou canst not yet endure it , is given thee in the ho tit of thy dissolution .
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144 Pwamythta ; . Jrom the German of Herder .
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5 . The Lily and the Rose .
Tell me , ye benign daughters of the coarse and black soil , who gave you your beautiful form ? for in truth ye have been modelled by no inelegant fingers , "What tiny spirits sprang out of your calixes ? and what joy did ye feel as goddesses rocked themselves on your
leaves ? Tell me ye peaceful flowers , how did they share together the delightful employment ? and how did they confer together as they span , threads so various , and wove and embroidered with such phantastic grace . But ye are silent ye children of love , and are content in silence to enjoy your existence , fie it so ; instructive fable shall teach me -what your tongues conceal .
The earth stood once , a naked rock ; when behold , a friendly band of nymphs trod upon the virgin soil , and courteous genii offered themselves to adorn . the naked rock . They divided their employment among each other ., t . veh under snow and amid cold unseemly grasses , modest Humility began and wove
the retiring violet . Hope followed her and filled with cooling vapours the little calix of the refreshing Hyacinth \ these succeeding so well * there now came a proud and pompous train of gaudy fair ones , the Tulip raised hern ^ ad * the Narcissus looked around with eyes languishing in vain . .
Many other nymphs arid goddesses busied themselves in various ways , adorning the earth and triumphing over its splendid shew . . And naw as sw larger portion of their works and their own joy over them were faded , Venus addressed the graces , * ' And why do you delay sisters of joyV said
she , " Arise and , weave ; out of your charms too , a mortal and visible blossom . " They descended , to the" earth , and A ^ laya ,, the grace of innocence , formed the l' 4 y ; Thalia and Euprosync weaved with sisterly . hand , the flower of joy and of love , the virgin rose .
Many flowers of the field ana of the garden enviea each other ; the rose and the lilly envied none and were envied oy all . Sister-like they bloom together upon one stem and adorn each * other . The flower of innocence heightens the
charms of the bride of love and joy : for sister graces have woven them inseparably together . On your cheeks too ye maidens , bloom lilies and roses , may . their creators and mistresses , Innocence , JLrOve and Joy , in like manner attend you united arid inseparable .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 144, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/24/
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