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Each circling wheel a wreath of flowers intwines, And gem d with flowers the filken harneſs ſhines; The golden bits with flowery ſtuds are deck'd, And knots of flowers the crimſon reins conned.-- And now on earth the ſilver axle rings,

And the ſhell ſinks upon its lender ſprings; Light from-her airy ſeat the Goddeſs bounds,

And ſteps celeſtial preſs the panſied grounds.

Fair Spring adyvancinsg calls her feather'd quire, And tunes to ſofter notes her laughing Ilyre; 70 Bids her gay hours on purple pinions moye,

And arms her Zephyrs with the ſhafts of Love, Pleaſed GXoMEs, aſcending from their carthy beds,

Play round her graceful footſteps, as he treads: O": 3

Pleafed Gnomes. 1. 73. The Roſicrucian do&trine of Gnomes, SyIphs, Nymphs, and Salamanders, affords proper machinery for a philofophic poem; as it is probable that they were originally the names of hieroglyphic figures of the Elements, or of Genit preſiding over their operations., The Fairies of more modern days ſeem to have-been derived from them, and to have inherited their powers. The Gnomes and SyIphs, as being more nearly allied to modern Fairies, are repreſented aseither male or female, which diſlinguiſhes the latter from the Aurz of the Latin Poets, which were only female; except the winds, as Zephyrus and

Auſter, may be ſuppoſed to have been their huſbands.

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