soil, plants, trees, or animals; whence when natural objects
are occasionally presented to us, as an uncultivated forest
and its wild inhabitants, we are not only amused with greater
variety of form, but are at the same time enchanted by the
charm of novelty, which is a less degree of Surprise, already
spoken of in note on l. 145 of this Canto.]

"The GENIUS-FORM, on silver slippers born,
With fairer dew-drops gems the rising morn; 260
Sheds o'er meridian skies a softer light,
And decks with brighter pearls the brow of night;
With finer blush the vernal blossom glows,
With sweeter breath enamour'd Zephyr blows,
The limpid streams with gentler murmurs pass,
And gayer colours tinge the watery glass,
Charm'd round his steps along the enchanted groves
Flit the fine forms of Beauties, Graces, Loves.

V. "Alive, each moment of the transient hour,
When Rest accumulates sensorial power, 270
The impatient Senses, goaded to contract,
Forge new ideas, changing as they act;
And, in long streams dissever'd, or concrete
In countless tribes, the fleeting forms repeat.
Which rise excited in Volition's trains,
Or link the sparkling rings of Fancy's chains;
Or, as they flow from each translucent source,
Pursue Association's endless course.

[Footnote: _When rest accumulates_, l. 270. The accumulation
of the spirit of animation, when those parts of the system
rest, which are usually in motion, produces a disagreeable
sensation. Whence the pain of cold and of hunger, and the
irksomeness of a continued attitude, and of an indolent life:
and hence the propensity to action in those confined animals,
which have been accustomed to activity, as is seen in the
motions of a squirrel in a cage; which uses perpetual
exertion to exhaust a part of its accumulated sensorial
power. This is one source of our general propensity to
action; another perhaps arises from our curiosity or
expectation of novelty mentioned in the note on l. 145. of
this canto.

But the immediate cause of our propensity to imitation above
that of other animals arises from the greater facility, with
which by the sense of touch we acquire the ideas of the
outlines of objects, and afte