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8 ECONNONY OF CANTo 1.

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Pierced with your ſilver ſhafts the throne of;

Night M 0 NO » Tt; I.. t Ep: And charm'd young Nature's opening eyes with rund 1Sht; 100 „„- u When Lover DivIixx, with brooding wings un- furl d;

Call'd from the rude abyſs the living world. be inte hates

8 bew as they have many properties in common. See note on 1. 468; 5 fnem of this Canto. allan When Love Divine. 1. 101. From having obſerved the gra« ai

dual evolution ofthe young animal or plant from its egg or ſeed; 130

and afterwards its ſucceſlive advances to its more perfeC ſtate, Nep

or maturity; philoſophers of all ages ſeem to have imagined, 60

that the great world itſelf had likewiſe its infancy and its gradual 100276

progreſs to maturity; this ſeems to have given origin to the very

antient and ſublime allegory of Eros, or Divine Love, producing 2

the world from the egg of Night, as it floated in Chaos. See; jep

1. 419 of this Canto. vers ut fas; m

The external cruſft of the earth, as far as it has been expoſed Id

to our view in mines or mountains, countenances this opinion; ſince theſe have evidently for the moſt part had their origin from the ſhells of fiſhes, the decompoſition of vegetables, and the re- x crements of other animal materials, and muſt therefore have been formed progreſſively from ſmall beginnings. Ihereare like-

wiſe ſome apparently uſeleſs or incomplete appendages to plants 152 ] and animals, which ſeem to ſhew they have gradually undergone equal 19 EE 7 3 38.8%*' | changes from their original ſtate; ſuch as the ſtamens without Med

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