roi'JIS or ll' .&.ma&lom1"J'~~.
INTO thnt forest far they theace him led,
Where wu their dwelling, in a pleuant ilade
With mountain• round about eavironed ~
.And mighty woods which did the valley lhade
And like a eta.tely theatre it made,
Spreading itself into a .apacioua plain j
And in the midst A little river play'd
Amongst the pumy ttonee, which aeem'd to/lain
With gentle murmur that hie course they <li reattain.
Beaitle the same a dainty place there lny,
Planted with myrtle-treea and laurels green,
ln which the birds !IUD!f many a loveir. lay
Of God's high pTaiae and of their love a sweet teen,
A.a it an earthly paradise had been ;
1n whose encloa~ll shadow there was pight -
A fair pavilion, 11carcely to be eeen,
The which wa.e all within most richly digbt,
That greatest princes living it might well delight.
·SPENSER,
l:ht 'im lausf h!J fl,a j~a.
WB wander'd to the Pine Forest
That skirts the oceaa'a foam ;
The lightest wind was in 1ta nest,
The teropeat in it11 home.
The whiap'riug wa.ves were half asleep,
The clouds were gone to play,
And on the bosom of the deep
The 111llile of heaven lay ;
It seem'd as if the hour were one
Sent from beyond the skies,
Which scatter'd from above the sun
.A. light of Pa.ra.dise!
We paused amid the pines that•tood
The giants of the wute,
Tortured by etorme to ebapea as rude
.A.s serpents interlaced,-
.A.nd soothed by every azure bT61l.th
That under heaven is blown,
To baMDonies and hues beneath,
A.a tender aa ita own :