The Tour of the Dove, a Poem; With Occasional Pieces:
The book The Tour of the Dove, a Poem; With Occasional Pieces: was written by author Edwards, John, B. Ca. 1772. [from Old Catalog] Here you can read free online of The Tour of the Dove, a Poem; With Occasional Pieces: book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Tour of the Dove, a Poem; With Occasional Pieces: a good or bad book?
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45 LXXVIL O Chantre7> thy incomparable skill Could I command^ I might employ it now ; For oil the apex of diat conic hill There stands — in listless apifthy — a Cow. No boshes^ not a solitary bought To break the charmed figure interfere ; But, as for sculpture fix'd^ she keeps the brow« That seems its rocky pedestal to rear> Bearing the idoUgoddess Egypt did revere. LXXVIIL Not dwindled but ^tdarged^ stUl on the height^ That form the musing miiid's attrition fills^ P and flhade> and l...ight But nature moves our wcmder as ^e wills >— The shadows wandering on the sunny hills> And those of spectral shape^ that walk the doikds ; The wind that likci a cavem'd spirit shrills ; The white mists passing in their wreathed shrouds ; The giant cragsi sole^peermg^ or in banded crowds ; 46 THE TOUR OF THS DOVE. LXXIX. With lurid aqpect the dark tfiiiTider storm Opening upon the hills its eye of fire;* The water-spout, whose strange pcvtentous form Stoops its proboscis like a downward ^ire.
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