Another swims along with graceful pride,
Her filver arms the glistening waves divide,
Her fhining fides the fondling waters lave,
Her glowing cheeks are brightened by the wave,
Her hair, of mildest yellow, flows from fide
To fide, as o'er it plays the wanton tide;
And careless as she turns, her thighs of fnow.
Their tapering rounds in deeper luftre shew.
Some gallant Lufians fought the woodland prey,
And through the thickets forced the pathless way;
And fome in fhades impervious to the beam,
Supinely liften'd to the murmuring stream:
When fudden through the boughs the various dyes
Of pink, of scarlet, and of azure rise..
Swift from the verdant banks the loiterers fpring,
Down drops the arrow from the half drawn string:
Soon they behold 'twas not the rofe's hue,
The jonquil's yellow, nor the panfie's blue:
Dazzling the fhades the nymphs appear-the zone
And flowing scarf in gold and azure shone.
Naked as Venus ftood in Ida's bower,
Some truft the dazzling charms of native power;
Through the green boughs and darkling fhades they fhew
The shining luftre of their native snow,
And every tapering, every rounded fwell
Of thigh, of bofom, as they glide, reveal.
As vifions cloath'd in dazzling white they rife,
Then steal unnoted from the flurried eyes :
Again apparent, and again withdrawn,
They shine and wanton o'er the smiling lawn.
Amazed and loft in rapture of surprize,
All joy, my friends, the brave VELOSO cries,
Whate'er of goddeffes old fable told,
Or poet fung of facred groves, behold.
Sacred to goddeffes divinely bright
These beauteous forefts own their guardian might.
From eyes profane, from every age conceal'd,
To us, behold all Paradife reveal'd!
Swift let us try if phantoms of the air,
Or living charms appear divinely fair!
Swift at the word the gallant Lufians bound,
Their rapid footsteps scarcely touch the ground;
Through copfe, through brake, impatient of their prey,
Swift as the wounded deer they spring away:
Fleet through the winding shades in rapid flight
The nymphs as wing'd with terror fly their fight.
Fleet though they fled the mild reverted eye,
And dimpling fmile their feeming fear deny.
Fleet through the fhades in parted rout they glide:
If winding path the chofen pairs divide,
Another path by fweet mistake betrays,
And throws the lover on the lover's gaze:
If dark-brow'd bower conceal the lovely fair,
The laugh, the fhriek, confefs the charmer there.
Luxurious here the wanton zephyrs toy,
And every fondling favouring art employ.
Fleet as the fair ones speed, the busy gale
In wanton frolic lifts the trembling veil;
White through the veil, in fairer brighter glow
The lifted robe displays the living snow:
Quick fluttering on the gale the robe conceals,
Then instant to the glance each charm reveals,
Reveals, and covers from the eyes on fire,
Reveals, and with the fhade inflames defire.
One, as her breathless lover haftens on,
With wily stumble fudden lies o'erthrown;
Confus'd, the rises with a blushing smile;
The lover falls the captive of her guile :
Tript by the fair he tumbles on the mead,
The joyful victim of his eager speed.
Afar, where sport the wantons in the lake,
Another band of gallant youths betake;
The laugh, the shriek, the revel and the toy,
Bespeak the innocence of youthful joy :
The laugh the fhriek, the gallant Lufians hear,
As through the forest glades they chase the deer;
For arm'd to chafe the bounding roe they came,
Unhop'd the transport of a nobler
game.
The naked wantons, as the youths appear,
Shrill through the woods refound the shriek of fear.
Some feign fuch terror of the forced embrace,
Their virgin modefty to this gives place,
Naked they spring to land and speed away
To deepest shades unpierc'd by glaring day;
Thus yielding freely to the amorous eyes
What to the amorous arms their fear denies.
Some well affume Diana's virgin fhame,
When on her naked sports the hunter
Unwelcome plunging in the crystal tide,
In vain they strive their beauteous limbs to hide;
The lucid waves, 'twas all they could, bestow
A milder luftre and a fofter glow.
As loft in earnest care of future need,
Some to the banks to fnatch their mantles speed,
Of prefent view regardless; every wile
Was yet, and every net of amorous guile.
Whate'er the terror of the feign'd alarm,
Difplay'd, in various force, was every charm.
Nor idle ftood the gallant youth; the wing
Of rapture lifts them, to the fair they spring;
Some to the copfe pursue their lovely prey;
Some cloath'd and fhod, impatient of delay,
Impatient of the ftings of fierce defire,
Plunge headlong in the tide to quench the firc.
So when the fowler to his cheek uprears
The hollow fteel, and on the mallard bears,
His eager dog, ere bursts the flashing roar,
Fierce for the prey springs headlong from the fhore-
And barking cuts the wave with furious joy:
So mid the billow fprings each eager boy,
Springs to the nymph whofe eyes from all the rest
By fingling him her fecret wish confeft.
A fon of Mars was there, of generous race,
His every elegance of manly grace;
Amorous and brave, the bloom of April youth
Glow'd on his cheek, his eye spoke simpleft truth;
Yet love, capricious to th' accomplish'd boy,
Had ever turn'd to gall each promis'd joy,
Had ever spurn'd his vows; yet ftill his heart
Would hope, and nourish still the tender fmart:
The pureft delicacy fann'd his fires,
And proudest honour nurs'd his fond defires.
Not on the first that fair before him glow'd,
Not on the first the youth his love bestow'd.
In all her charms the fair Ephyre came,
And Leonardo's heart was all on flame.
Affection's melting transport o'er him stole,
And love's all generous glow intranced his foul;
Of selfish joy unconscious, every thought
On fweet, delirium's ocean ftreamed afloat.
Pattern of beauty did Ephyre shine,
Nor lefs fhe wifh'd these beauties to refign:
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