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"American Female Poets [an electronic edition]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAE7433.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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ZÓPHIËL'S OFFERINGS TO EGLA.
(FROM THE SAME.)
THEN, lowly bending, with seraphic grace,The vase he proffer'd full; and not a gemDrawn forth successive from its sparkling place,But put to shame the Persian diadem.
While he, "Nay, let me o'er thy white arms bindThese orient pearls, less smooth; Egla, for thee,(My thrilling substance pained by storm and wind,)I sought them in the caverns of the sea.
"Look! here's a ruby; drinking solar rays,I saw it redden on a mountain tip;Now on thy snowy bosom let it blaze;'T will blush still deeper to behold thy lip.
"Here's for thy hair a garland; every flowerThat spreads its blossoms, water'd by the tearOf the sad slave in Babylonian bower,Might see its frail bright hues perpetuate here.
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"For morn's light bell, this changeful amethyst;A sapphire for the violet's tender blue;Large opals, for the queen-rose zephyr-kist;And here are emeralds of every hue,For folded bud and leaflet, dropp'd with dew.
"And here's a diamond, cull'd from Indian mine,To gift a haughty queen! It might not be;I knew a worthier brow, sister divine,And brought the gem; for well I deem, for thee
"The 'arch-chymic sun' in earth's dark bosom wroughtTo prison thus a ray, that when dull nightFrowns o'er her realms, and nature's all seems nought,She whom he grieves to leave may still behold his light."
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