A sweet perfume and exhalation."
Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, Book i. Song 2.
[Clarke's Cabinet Series, 1845, p. 70.]
C. Forbes.
Odour from the Rainbow.—The following stanzas are from a poem, called "The Blind Girl," in a publication by Pickering, 1845, of Memorials of a Tour, and Miscellaneous Poems, by Robert Snow, Esq. Lond., 1845:—
"Once in our porch whilst I was resting,
To hear the rain-drops in their mirth,
You said you saw the rainbow cresting
The heavens with colour, based on earth:
And I believe it fills the showers