the uterus, where it adhered, bleeds;
but not the extremities of its own vessels.]

[Footnote: _His dazzled eyes_, l. 398. Though the membrana
pupillaris described by modern anatomists guards the tender
retina from too much light; the young infant nevertheless
seems to feel the presence of it by its frequently moving its
eyes, before it can distinguish common objects.]

"Creative Nile, as taught in ancient song,
So charm'd to life his animated throng;
O'er his wide realms the slow-subsiding flood
Left the rich treasures of organic mud;
While with quick growth young Vegetation yields
Her blushing orchards, and her waving fields;
Pomona's hand replenish'd Plenty's horn,
And Ceres laugh'd amid her seas of corn.--
Bird, beast, and reptile, spring from sudden birth,
Raise their new forms, half-animal, half-earth; 410
The roaring lion shakes his tawny mane,
His struggling limbs still rooted in the plain;
With flapping wings assurgent eagles toil
To rend their talons from the adhesive soil;
The impatient serpent lifts his crested head,
And drags his train unfinish'd from the bed.--
As Warmth and Moisture blend their magic spells,
And brood with mingling wings the slimy dells;
Contractile earths in sentient forms arrange,
And Life triumphant stays their chemic change." 420

[Footnote: _As warmth and moisture_, l. 417.

In eodem corpore saepe
Altera pars vivit; rudis est pars altera tellus.
Quippe ubi temperiem sumpsere humorque calorque,
Concipiunt; & ab his oriuntur, cuncta duobus.

OVID. MET. l. 1. 430.

This story from Ovid of the production of animals from the
mud of the Nile seems to be of Egyptian origin, and is
probably a poetical account of the opinions of the magi or
priests of that country; showing that the simplest animations
were spontaneously produced like chemical combinations, but
were distinguished from the latter by their perpetual
improvement by the power of reproduction, first by solitary,
and then by sexual generation; whereas the products of
natural chemistry are only enlarged by accretion, or purified
by filtration.]

Then hand in hand along the waving glades
The