Uprear'd its purple stem around her knees: And gemmy flower, of Trebizond misnam'd 1. Inmate of highest stars, where erst it sham'd All other loveliness: its honied dew

(The fabled nectar that the heathen knew)
Deliriously sweet, was dropp'd from Heaven,
And fell on gardens of the unforgiven
In Trebizond—and on a sunny flower
So like its own above, that to this hour
It still remaineth, torturing the bee
With madness, and unwonted reverie:
In Heaven, and all its environs, the leaf
And blossom of the fairy plant, in grief
Disconsolate linger,-grief that hangs her head,
Repenting follies that full long have fled,
Heaving her white breast to the balmy air,
Like guilty beauty, chasten'd, and more fair :
Nyctanthes too, as sacred as the light
She fears to perfume, perfuming the night :
And Clytia 2 pondering between many a sun,
While pettish tears adown her petals run:
And that aspiring flower that sprang on Earth

1 This flower is much noticed by Lewenhoeck and Tournefort. The bee, feeding upon its blossom, becomes intoxicated.

2 Clytia, the Chrysanthemum Peruvianum, or, to employ a better known term, the Turnsol,-which turns continually toward the sun, covers itself, like Peru, the country from which it comes, with dewy clouds which cool and refresh its flowers during the most violent heat of the day.-B. DE ST. PIERRE.

And died, ere scarce exalted into birth,1
Bursting its odorous heart in spirit to wing
Its way to Heaven, from garden of a king :
And Valesnerian lotus 2 thither flown

From struggling with the waters of the Rhone :
And thy most lovely purple perfume, Zante !3
Isola d'oro! Fior di Levante !

And the Nelumbo bud, that floats forever
With Indian Cupid down the holy river—
Fair flowers, and fairy! to whose care is given
To bear the Goddess' song in odors up to
Heaven: 5

"Spirit! that dwellest where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie!

1 There is cultivated in the king's garden at Paris, a species of serpentine aloes without prickles, whose large and beautiful flower exhales a strong odor of the vanilla, during the time of its expansion, which is very short. It does not blow till toward the month of July. You then perceive it gradually open its petals, expand them, fade, and die.-ST. PIERRE.

2 There is found, in the Rhone, a beautiful lily of the Valisnerian kind. Its stem will stretch to the length of three or four feet, thus preserving its head above water in the swellings of the river.

3 The hyacinth.

4 It is a fiction of the Indians, that Cupid was first seen floating in one of these down the river Ganges, and that he still loves the cradle of his childhood.

5 And golden vials, full of odors, which are the prayers of the saints.-REV. ST. JOHN.

Beyond the line of blue

The boundary of the star
Which turneth at the view

Of thy barrier and thy bar

Of the barrier overgone

By the comets who were cast

From their pride and from their throne,
To be drudges till the last—

To be carriers of fire

(The red fire of their heart)

With speed that may not tire

And with pain that shall not part—

Who livest-that we know

In Eternity-we feel—

But the shadow of whose brow

What spirit shall reveal?

Thro' the beings whom thy Nesace,
Thy messenger hath known
Have dream'd for thy Infinity

A model of their own.1

Thy will is done, oh God!

The star hath ridden high

1 The Humanitarians held that God was to be understood as having really a human form.-Vide Clarke's Sermons, vol. i. p. 26, fol. edit.

The drift of Milton's argument leads him to employ language which would appear, at first sight, to verge upon their doctrine; but it will be seen immediately that he guards himself against the charge of having adopted one of the most ignorant errors of the dark ages of the church. -Dr. Sumner's Notes on Milton's Christian Doctrine.

This opinion, in spite of many testimonies to the contrary, could never have been very general. Andeus, a

Thro' many a tempest, but she rode
Beneath thy burning eye;
And here, in thought, to thee-
In thought that can alone
Ascend thy empire, and so be
A partner of thy throne-
By winged Fantasy.1

My embassy is given,

Till secrecy shall knowledge be

In the environs of Heaven."

She ceased and buried then her burning cheek Abash d amid the lilies there, to seek

A shelter from the fervor of His eye;

For the stars trembled at the Deity.

She stirr'd not-breath'd not-for a voice was

there

How solemnly pervading the calm air!

A sound of silence on the startled ear

Syrian of Mesopotamia, was condemned for the opinion, as heretical. He lived in the beginning of the fourth century. His disciples were called Anthropomorphites.— Vide Du Pin.

Among Milton's minor poems are these lines :

Dicite sacrorum præsides nemorum Deæ,

Quis ille primus cujus ex imagine
Natura solers finxit humanum genus?
Eternus, incorruptus, æquævus polo.
Unusque et universus exemplar Dei.

And afterwards :

Non cui profundum Cæcitas lumen dedit
Dircæus augur vidit hunc alto sinu, etc.

1 Seltsamen Tochter Jovis
Seinem Schosskinde

Der Phantasie.-GOETHE.