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àm videt infelix præter mare tristi percussum, & pallentes sulphure campos, que, flammasque, rotataque turbine saxa. ubi detonuit fragor, & lux reddita cœlo; confluere agricolas, passuque videres a iterum timido deserta requirere tecta : :es, si forte oculis, si forte darentur n cineres, miserorumve ossa parentum a, sed tanti saltem solatia luctus) olligere & justâ componere in urnâ. m nusquam cineres, nusquam ossa parentum miseram!) assuetosve Lares, aut rura videbunt.

pe ubi planities campi diffusa jacebat; novus: ille supercilium, frontemque favillâ um ostentans, ambustis cautibus, æquor

n colles, non carmine matutino
resonare; adeò undique dirus habebat
atè horror agros saltusque vacantes.
ongé detorquens navita proram
t digito littus, sævæque revolvens
rrabat noctis, veteremque ruinam.

adhuc facies manet hirta atque aspera
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Reader. It appeared in the

On the fam'd shore where f
And overlook the shining d
Old Gaurus rears his inausp
His vines consum'd, and all
So near a new-sprung mou
Burning his groves, and th
For Fame reports of old, w
The country lay in solemn
While rustics, thoughtless
Enjoy'd the grateful blessin
The swelling surges lash th
The lab'ring Earth thro' al
Loud echoes from the loft
Fair Naples from her deep
And dread Vesuvius, tren
Sudden the yawning Eart
Her dreadful jaws; forth
Black pitchy clouds with
To whelm the landscape
The beasts are fled: alon
The frighted shepherd fli
His ling'ring children ca
Their distant footsteps re
Then lonely climbs a ro
And backward o'er the
If still, perchance, to me
His much-lov'd woods,

extinctus jamdudum, & fiamma quievit,
enti aderat; seu forté bituminis atri
olìm rivi, atque effœta lacuna
ficere ardori, viresque recusat;
ceribus meditans incendia jam nunc
m) arcanis glomerat genti esse futuræ
ursos tacitusque recolligit ignes.
r clivos haud secius ordine vidi

er.

It appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for July,

the fam❜d shore where fierce volcanos glow,
d overlook the shining deeps below,
d Gaurus rears his inauspicious head,
s vines consum❜d, and all his honours fled;
near a new-sprung mountain now abides,
rning his groves, and thundering at his sides.
or Fame reports of old, while all around
he country lay in solemn silence drown'd,
While rustics, thoughtless of approaching woes,
njoy'd the grateful blessings of repose,

The swelling surges lash the sounding shores,
The lab'ring Earth thro' all her caverns roars;
Loud echoes from the lofty woods rebound,
Fair Naples from her deepest bay profound,
And dread Vesuvius, tremble at the sound.
Sudden the yawning Earth discloses wide
Her dreadful jaws; forth-issuing in a tide,
Black pitchy clouds with bursting flames conspire
To whelm the landscape in a flood of fire.
The beasts are fled: along the pathless waste
The frighted shepherd flies with eager haste,
His ling'ring children calls, and thinks he hears
Their distant footsteps reach his list'ning ears;
Then lonely climbs a rock's stupendous height,
And backward o'er the plain directs his sight,
If still, perchance, to meet his longing eyes,
His much-lov'd woods, and humble cottage rise.

their dwellings on the desert plain,
ives' and wretched sires' remains to mourn,
cent place within the sacred urn.
consolation granted to their woes,
alas! their hapless state bestows.)
■y men! no wives' or sires' remains
eet your eyes, or mitigate your pains;

ere your peaceful dwellings late were spread,
v-rais'd mountain rears his ghastly head,
cks deform'd and hoary ashes crown'd,
oud o'erlooks the subject plains around,
-vastation threats the country o'er,
gns despotic on the lonely shore.
me ill omen'd hence the country gains,
ng neglected lay the barren plains.
e the plough is seen to break the soil,
ful fields to crown the peasant's toil;
e is heard the shepherd's cheerful lay,
ful birds to hail the rising day:
is spread a face of ruin o'er!

the cautious seaman from the shore his slender bark, avoids the strand, Enting shews the inauspicious land; the horrors of the fatal night,

the dreary landscape rises to the sight.

ough with stones appears the mountain-head,

mer flames extinct, his terrors fled;

r the sulphurous rivers, which supplied

is bowels with a constant tide,

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Again delights to lift his festive head,

With trembling steps resumes his former stand,

And clothes once more with blushing vines the land.

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