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He adds the running Springs, and standing Lakes;
And bounding Banks for winding Rivers makes.
Some part, in Earth are swallow'd up, the most
In ample Oceans, disembogu'd, are lost.
He shades the Woods, the Vallies he restrains
With rocky Mountains, and extends the Plains.
And as five Zones th' Ætherial Regions bind,
Five, Correspondent, are to Earth assign'd:
The Sun with Rays, directly darting down,
Fires all beneath, and fries the middle Zone:
The two beneath the distant Poles, complain
Of endless Winter, and perpetual Rain.
Betwixt th' Extreams, two happier Climates hold
The Temper that partakes of Hot, and Cold.
The Fields of liquid Air, inclosing all,
Surround the Compass of this earthly Ball:
The lighter parts lye next the Fires above;
The grosser near the watry Surface move:
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And Thunder's Voice, which wretched Mortals fear,
And Winds that on their Wings cold Winter bear.
Nor were those blustring Brethren left at large,
On Seas, and Shores, their Fury to discharge:
Bound as they are, and circumscrib'd in place,
They rend the World, resistless, where they pass;
And mighty Marks of Mischief leave behind;
Such is the Rage of their tempestuous kind.
First Eurus to the rising Morn is sent,
(The Regions of the balmy Continent;)
And Eastern Realms, where early Persians run,
To greet the blest appearance of the Sun.
Westward, the wanton Zephyr wings his Flight;
Pleas'd with the Remnants of departing Light:
Fierce Boreas, with his Off-spring, issues forth
T' invade the frozen Waggon of the North.