The birth and triumph of love A poem . nought avails his fixed purfuit to flay;Boldly he ftill expands his pinions fleet,T oerpafs their airy courfe, and flop their coy retreat. G Long 42 THE BIRTH AND TRIUMPH OF LOVE. XXX. Long doubtful was the ftrife—for many a mile,Oer hill, oer dale, the Boy maintains the chace;Yet IHII the Hearts his expe6lation foil:And, as he urges tlie uncertain race,With doubled fpeed his efforts they now the chearful Landfcape feemed to change:The long-drawn Vale to rugged Rocks gave place,Which, fcattcred wildly with confufed antic ba
The birth and triumph of love A poem . nought avails his fixed purfuit to flay;Boldly he ftill expands his pinions fleet,T oerpafs their airy courfe, and flop their coy retreat. G Long 42 THE BIRTH AND TRIUMPH OF LOVE. XXX. Long doubtful was the ftrife—for many a mile,Oer hill, oer dale, the Boy maintains the chace;Yet IHII the Hearts his expe6lation foil:And, as he urges tlie uncertain race,With doubled fpeed his efforts they now the chearful Landfcape feemed to change:The long-drawn Vale to rugged Rocks gave place,Which, fcattcred wildly with confufed antic bafe arofe with fummits bare and flrange. XXXI. High towering far beyond his wild browner horror cloathed, more rudely infulated bulk a Mountain oer fubje(fted hills his fway to hold,In fullen ftate and domination Rock, the Hill of Difficulty all-refrefhing fun-beam neer confoled;In icy chains and fnows eternal frowned witli favage front and dread ftupendous height. Still. ;\V ) l>T. ?< AT THK 11111,1. OK iJlFll-JC Ill-TY. THE BIRTH AND TRIUMPH OF LOVE. 43 XXXII. Still more its ftate fequeftered to fecure,Around its bafe far fpread Morafles deepFoul-mantling ftagnate. From their fource impureThick noifome exhalations mount the fleep,And towards its craggy fummit circling creep,Thro which each precipice more rueful fhewed;While, from the long-colle6led vapour, weepUnceafing fhowers, wafhing the drear abodeWhere lurk the Adder vile and folitary Toad. XXXIII. It was a place where Joy could never beam,Where never calm Contentednefs could dwell;For all the woes tliat fancy eer could dream,And all the horrors of imagined Hell,Were here in colours ftrong depidlured dire contagion tainted wide the the fenfes in mephitic fpell;Shrouded in which, his engines to prepareTo catch his lucklefs prey, fat brooding grim Defpair. G 2 When 44 THE BIRTH AND TRIUMPH OF LOVE. XXXIV. When, as intent his obje6l
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