. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . : The balmy Stream forgets to flow; Her Breafts to Icy Mountains grow. Deaths gloomy Veil oerfpreads the Maid, And all her youthful Glories fade. In vain the pearly Dewdrop tries To force a PafTage from her Eyes; Chilld by cold Death, within its Cell It lliines congeald into a Pearl. Joys are fled, the Lover mourns. Pain and Grief and Tears return: All is Sorrow, all is Care, Deepefl Woe, and black Defpair! Such, alas! are Natures Joys, One fliort Hour the Blifs deftroys: Objects then can charm no more, Senfe and PafT
. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . : The balmy Stream forgets to flow; Her Breafts to Icy Mountains grow. Deaths gloomy Veil oerfpreads the Maid, And all her youthful Glories fade. In vain the pearly Dewdrop tries To force a PafTage from her Eyes; Chilld by cold Death, within its Cell It lliines congeald into a Pearl. Joys are fled, the Lover mourns. Pain and Grief and Tears return: All is Sorrow, all is Care, Deepefl Woe, and black Defpair! Such, alas! are Natures Joys, One fliort Hour the Blifs deftroys: Objects then can charm no more, Senfe and PafTion lofe their Power j Sighs and Tears come pouring in. And long Repentance ends the fliort-livd Scene. NOTE ( 59) NOTE to Emblem XIX. (j) f/orj —The fame among the Latins as Chloris among theGrrels, one of the Nymphs calld Napie^e, or rather one of theLftwniades, who, they thought, prcfidcd over the Meadows andflowry Fields. See Emb. X. Not. {hb). She is fabld to be marrydto Zephyrus, becaufe that Wind is moft conducive to the Growth ofVegetables and opning Flowers. K^. Emblem (6o)
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