,
Blue fields of air, and ocean's briny beds;
Flings from his radiant torch celestial light
O'er Day's wide concave, and illumes the Night.
With dulcet eloquence his tuneful tongue
Convokes and captivates the Fair and Young;
His golden lamp with ray ethereal dyes
The blushing cheek, and lights the laughing eyes; 420
With secret flames the virgin's bosom warms,
And lights the impatient bridegroom to her arms;
With lovely life all Nature's frame inspires,
And, as they sink, rekindles all her fires."

VII. Now paused the beauteous Teacher, and awhile
Gazed on her train with sympathetic smile.
'Beware of Love! she cried, ye Nymphs, and hear
'His twanging bowstring with alarmed ear;
'Fly the first whisper of the distant dart,
'Or shield with adamant the fluttering heart; 430
'To secret shades, ye Virgin trains, retire,
'And in your bosoms guard the vestal fire.'
--The obedient Beauties hear her words, advised,
And bow with laugh repress'd, and smile chastised.

[Footnote: _With laugh repress'd_, l. 434. The cause of the
violent actions of laughter, and of the difficulty of
restraining them, is a curious subject of inquiry. When pain
afflicts us, which we cannot avoid, we learn to relieve it by
great voluntary exertions, as in grinning, holding the
breath, or screaming; now the pleasurable sensation, which
excites laughter, arises for a time so high as to change its
name, and become a painful one; and we excite the convulsive
motions of the respiratory muscles to relieve this pain. We
are however unwilling to lose the pleasure, and presently put
a stop to this exertion; and immediately the pleasure recurs,
and again as instantly rises into pain. Which is further
explained in Zoonomia, Sect. 34. 1. 4. When this pleasurable
sensation rises into a painful one, and the customs of
society will not permit us to laugh aloud, some other violent
voluntary exertion is used instead of it to alleviate the
pain.]

[Footnote: _With smile chastised_, l. 434. The origin of the
smile has generally been ascribed to inexplicable instinct,
but may be deduced from our early associations of actions and
ideas. In the act of sucking, the lips of the infant are
closed ro