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46 When vernal un-beams pierce their dark retreat The heaving tomb ditends with vital heat; The full-form'd brood impatient of their cell Start from their trance, and burt their ilken hell; Trembling a-while they tand, and carcely dare To launch at once upon the untried air: At length aur'd, they catch the favouring gale, And leave their ordid poils, and high in Ether ail. So when Rinaldo truck the concious rind He found a nymph in every trunk confin'd; The foret labours with convulive throes, The burting trees the lovely births dicloe, And a gay troop of damels round him tood, Where late was rugged bark and lifeles wood. Lo! the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With ilver fring'd and freckl'd o'er with gold. On the gay boom of ome fragrant flower They idly fluttering live their little hour; Their