The gardens, however, under the date-trees are beautiful, and abundantly watered with copious streams, all of which are warm, and in one of which we bathed ourselves and felt new vigour run through our veins.

With a shout they bore down upon the Kureisch, who wavered and broke beneath this inspired onrush, within whose vigour dwelt all Mahomet's surcharged ambition and indomitable aims.

"The labouring bee, when his sharp sting is gone, Forgets his golden work, and turns a drone: Such is a satire, when you take away That rage, in which his noble vigour lay.

May strength the sportsman's nerves in vigour brace; May cruelty ne'er stain with foul disgrace

And thou, whoe'er thou art, excuse the force These men have used; and, oh! befriend our course!" "Pray not for us," the nimble Dictys cried, Dictys, that could the main-top-mast bestride, And down the ropes with active vigour slide.

So when MEDEA to exulting Greece From plunder'd COLCHIS bore the golden fleece; 385 On the loud shore a magic pile she rais'd, The cauldron bubbled, and the faggots blaz'd;- Pleased on the boiling wave old ÆSON swims, And feels new vigour stretch his swelling limbs;

The heat of youth may spread happiness into wild luxuriance, but the radical vigour requisite to make it perennial is exhausted, and all that can be hoped afterwards is languor and sterility.