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 The trembling Surface, by the Motion stir'd, Spreads in a second Circle, then a third; Wide, and more wide, the floating Rings advance, Fill all the wat'ry Plain, and to the Margin dance. Thus ev'ry Voice and Sound, when first they break, On neighb'ring Air a soft Impression make; Another ambient Circle then they move. That, in its turn, impels the next above; Thro' undulating Air the Sounds are sent, And spread o'er all the fluid Element.

There various News I heard, of Love and Strife, Of Peace and War, Health, Sickness, Death, and Life; Of Loss and Gain, of Famine and of Store, Of Storms at Sea, and Travels on the Shore, Of