...warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays : Others on soft lakes and rivers bathed Their downy breasts ; the swan with arched neck Between her white wings...pennons, tower The mid aerial sky : others on ground Walked firm ; the crested cock whose clarion sounds The silent hours, and the other whose gay train...

...think me infected with the spirit of Lauder, if I give you another of Milton's imitations : — " - . The swan with arched neck Between her white wings...mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet."— Book VII. v. 438, &c. " The ancient poets," says Mr. Richardson, " have not hit upon this beauty ;...

...with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings Till even; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays...The dank, and rising on stiff pennons tower The mid aCrial sky : others on ground Walked firm ; the crested cock, whose clarion sounds The silent hours...

...nightingale Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft lays : Others, on silver lakes and rivers, bath'd Their downy breast ; the swan with arched neck, Between...dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aereal sky : Others on ground Walk'd firm ; the crested cock whose clarion sounds The silent hours,...

...echoes a sounding waterfall; or where a glimpse may be caught of a piece of crystal water, upon which " The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows Her state with oary feet." From this we are led to make our observations upon the careful industry of man, which unlike the "...

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...song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wing* Till even ; nor then the solemn nightingale Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays...pennons tower The mid aerial sky : others on ground Walked firm ; the crested cock, whose clarion sounds The silent hours ; and the other, whose gay train...