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    From its own essence exquisitely modelled . There breed , and die * and leave a progeny , Still multiplied beyond the reach of numbers , To frame new cells add tombs j then breed and die , As all their ancestors had done * and rest . Hermetically aeal'd , each in its shrine A statue in Ms temple of oblivion !

    Millions of Bullions ; thus , from age to age , With simplest skill and toil unweafiable , No moment and nx > movement unimprov'd , Laid line online , on terrace terrace spread , To swell the heightening , brightening , gradual mound , By marvellous structure climbing towards the day . Each wrought alone , yet all together wrought , Unconscious , not unworthy , instruments ,

    By which a hand invisible was rearing A new creation in the silent deep . Omnipotence wrought in them , with them , by them ; Hence what Omnipotence alone could do , Worms did . I saw the living pile ascend , The mausoleum of its architects , Still dying upwards as their labours clos'd : Slime the material , but the slime was turn'd

    To adamant b y their petnfic touch ; Frail were their frames , ephemeral their lives , Their masonry imperishable . All Life ' s needful functions , food , exertion , rest , By nice economy of Providence , Were overruled to carry oh the process , Which out of water brought forth solid rock . —Atom by atom , thus the burthen grew , " &c

    This is but a brief specimen of one of the finest pieces of description we have ever met with . More interesting , however , is the arrival of the first pair of pelicans at the island , and the beautiful picture of maternal instinct which follows : " There , in sweet thraldom , yet unweening why , The patient darn , who ne * er , till now , had known Parental instinct , brooded o ' er her eggs , Long ere she found the curious secret out

    That life was hatching in their brittle shells . Then , from a wild , rapacious bird of prey , Tamed by the kindly process , she became That gentlest of all living things—a mother : Gentlest while yearning o ' er her naked young , Fiercest when stirr ed by anger to defend them . Her mate himself , the softening pow ' r confess ed , Forgot his sloth , r ^ strain'd his appetite , \

    And ranged the sk y and fish'd the stream for her ; Or , when o v erwearied Nature forced her off To shake her torpid feathers in the breeze , Or bathe her bosom in the cooling flood , He took her pflacc , and felt thro' every nerve , While the plump itestfingj throWd against his heart , The tenderness which nrakes the vulture mild .

    Yea , half unwillingl y Iris j * 6 st resign'd When , home-sick wuh the absence of an from * , She hurried back , ttbtd 4 iWe m % jfront hcr seat

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/35/