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He in the vine-clad bowers, unseen is dwelling, Where the cool shade its freshness round thee throws, His voice, in every perfumed zephyr swelling, With gentlest whisper lures thee to repose, And the soft sounds that through the foliage sigh, But woo thee still to slumber and to die.

Mysterious danger lurks, a Syren, there, Not robed in terrors, or announced in gloom, But stealing o'er thee in the scented air, And veiled in flowers, that smile to deck thy tomb: How may we deem, amidst their deep array, That heaven and earth but flatter to betray?

Sunshine, and bloom, and verdure! can it be, That these but charm us with destructive wiles? Where shall we turn, O Nature! if in thee Danger is masked in beauty—death in smiles? Oh ! still the Circe of that fatal shore, Where she, the sun's bright daughter, dwelt of yore!