The heart's red concave, and the silver brain;

Leads the long nerve, expands the impatient sense,

And clothes in silken skin the nascent Ens.

Erewhile, emerging from its liquid bed,

It lifts in gelid air its nodding head;

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The lights first dawn with trembling eyelid hails,

With lungs untaught arrests the balmy gales;

Tries its new tongue in tones unknown, and hears

The strange vibrations with unpractised ears;