d."

95 From ozier bowers the brooding Halcyons peep,
The Swans pursuing cleave the glassy deep,
On hovering wings the wondering Reed-larks play,
And silent Bitterns listen to the lay.--
_Three_ shepherd-swains beneath the beechen shades
100 Twine rival garlands for the tuneful maids;
On each smooth bark the mystic love-knot frame,
Or on white sands inscribe the favour'd name.

From Time's remotest dawn where China brings
In proud succession all her Patriot-Kings;
105 O'er desert-sands, deep gulfs, and hills sublime,
Extends her massy wall from clime to clime;
With bells and dragons crests her Pagod-bowers,
Her silken palaces, and porcelain towers;
With long canals a thousand nations laves;
110 Plants all her wilds, and peoples all her waves;
Slow treads fair CANNABIS the breezy strand,
The distaff streams dishevell'd in her hand;

[_Cannabis_. l. 111. Chinese Hemp. Two houses. Five males. A new
species of hemp, of which an account is given by K. Fitzgerald, Esq. in a
letter to Sir Joseph Banks, and which is believed to be much superior
to the hemp of other countries. A few seeds of this plant were sown in
England on the 4th of June, and grew to fourteen feet seven inches
in height by the middle of October; they were nearly seven inches in
circumference, and bore many lateral branches, and produced very white
and tough fibres. At some parts of the time these plants grew nearly
eleven inches in a week. Philos. Trans. Vol. LXXII. p. 46.]

Now to the left her ivory neck inclines,
And leads in Paphian curves its azure lines;
115 Dark waves the fringed lid, the warm cheek glows,
And the fair ear the parting locks disclose;
Now to the right with airy sweep she bends,
Quick join the threads, the dancing spole depends.
--_Five_ Swains attracted guard the Nymph, by turns
120 Her grace inchants them, and her beauty burns;
To each She bows with sweet assuasive smile,
Hears his soft vows, and turns her spole the while.

So when with light and shade, concordant strife!
Stern CLOTHO weaves the chequer'd thread of life;
125 Hour after hour the growing line extends,
The cradle and the coffin bound its ends;

[_Paphian curves._ l. 114. In his ingenious work, entitled, The Analysis
of Beauty, Mr. Hogarth believes t