In another passage,
The splendid raiment of the Spring peeps forth
Her universal Green—
This of Lucretius will be found to have much similitude:
Camposque per omnes
Florida fulserunt viridami prata colore.
782, 3.
O'er every plain The flowery meadows beam with verdant hue.
And that exceedingly fine verse,
All Nature feels her venorating sway,
calls to mind the ever-memorable exordium of the Roman Poet.
If we admire the imitative force of this line in the epic majesty of
Virgilian numbers,