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Chorus of Dryads. From the Orfeo of Politiano.

To the Nightingale. From Rousseau.

The Nereid. From Gresset..

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Sonnet V. At the Sepulchre of Petrarch. From Lazzarini

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Verses to Robert Anderson, M.D. with a Copy of the first
Edition of the Author's Poems.
Verses to Miss Baillie, on the Publication of her First Volume
of Plays on the Passions.
The Genii.

TALES OF SUPERSTITION AND CHIVALRY. The Dark Ladie.

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LYRICAL PIECES.

THE SPIRIT OF THE AIR.

BE hush'd, ye angry winds! that sweep,

Resistless, o'er the polar coast;

Thou swell'st no more, tremendous deep!

I lock thee in eternal frost.

My will supreme, mine awful sway,

The earth, the air, the sea obey;

My glance pervades the realms of space;

Each hidden spring, this arm can trace;

O'er all the prostrate world my power extends,

Alike on Zembla's ice, on Zaara's burning sands.

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