The birth and triumph of love A poem . he mountain to explore,On every fide his careful ftep he bent;The anxious fearch increafed his pain yet more,For all was wild, abrupt, precipitous and hoar. Again 40 THE BIRTH AND TRIUMPH OF LOVE. XXXVIII. Again to pierce tlie horrid gloom he tries,And with afpiring flight his prize to wayward fate again luccefs denies:The exhalations cold his pinions freeze,And damp enflirouding vapours check the from the noxious pool they mounting Love no confolation fees;No expectations cheer his labouring fondly promifed joy
The birth and triumph of love A poem . he mountain to explore,On every fide his careful ftep he bent;The anxious fearch increafed his pain yet more,For all was wild, abrupt, precipitous and hoar. Again 40 THE BIRTH AND TRIUMPH OF LOVE. XXXVIII. Again to pierce tlie horrid gloom he tries,And with afpiring flight his prize to wayward fate again luccefs denies:The exhalations cold his pinions freeze,And damp enflirouding vapours check the from the noxious pool they mounting Love no confolation fees;No expectations cheer his labouring fondly promifed joys Defpairs approach controul. XXXIX. The foul contagion now pervades his heart;His moody breafi: dark felon thoughts obfcure:With defperate hand he catches up his dart,Refolved the racking pain no more to now uplifted with intent impureHe held it poifed, when, thro the fky profound,With rapid wing and dcftination fure,A bright f(Tap]iic vifion Ibught the heavenly founds were heard, and fplcndors fhone around. Her. y/Vicjw^S.*^^ ^»;^t«t^va>4-^j X**—--iKv-^-^y,- tvk:v.^ a^vay j-x j?isijirB. Wii-*i»w^*« ,>C!> i2a*^*i^c^. i«^«^/7 .;^7- ?\
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