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LAPS FOND: 83
“ Of marbled Snow, as far as Eye can fweep
‘© With a blue creft of te unbounded glaz’d:
* By dancing meteors:then, that ceafelels fhake
« A waving blaze relrafled o’er the heavens,
« And vivid moons, and flars that keener play
« With doubled luftre from the glofly wafte,
“ Even in the depth of Polar night, they find
« A wond’rous day ; enough to light the chace
A Or guide their daring mat to aaa fairs.
Pe te
« While dim Aurora pire before,
« The welcome Sun, jult verging up at firlt,
« By {mall degrees extends the {welling curve !
« Till feen at laft for gay rejoicing mouths,
« Stull round and round, his {piral courle he winds,
«© And as he neatly dips his flaming orb, ’
« Wheels up again, and re-afcends the Sky,
e In that glad feafon from the Lakes and floods,
Where pure Niemi’s + fairy mountains rile, 7
M2 def ie ene,
+ M. de Maupertuis, im his book onthe figure of the Farth, after having
defciibed the beautiful Lake and Mountains of Niemi in Lapland, fays,~=
«* Fram this height, we had opportunity feveral times to fee thofe vapours
rife from the Lake, whichthe people of the country call Ha/tios, and which
they
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