Where mountains rise, umbrageous dales descend,
And caverns deep, as optic tube descries,
A smaller Earth, gives all his blaze again,
Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day.
Thomson could not resist the attractions of Milton's stately Latin vocabulary. Where Milton describes how, in Paradise--
the flowery lap
Of some irriguous valley spread her store;
Thomson follows with--
See where the winding vale its lavish stores
Irriguous spreads.