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...madrepores, And banks of sponge, as soft and fair to eye As ere was mossy bed Whereon the Wood-Nymphs lie With languid limbs, in summer's sultry hours....cups contracted, And now, in open blossom spread, Stretched like green anthers many a seeking head. Yea, beautiful as Mermaid's golden hair Upon the...

...e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs in summer's sultry hours. There, too, were living flowers, Which, like a bud compacted...cups contracted ; And now, in open blossom spread, Stretched, like green anthers, many a seeking head ; And arborets of jointed stone were there, And...

...the work of devastation. And here were COBA.L bowers ; And grots of MADBEPORES, And hanks of SPONGE, as soft and fair to eye, As e'er was mossy bed whereon the wood-nymphs Ho. It was a sight Of wonder and delight, To see the FISH, like hirds in air, Kound the...

...J " Second Visit to the United States," vol. ii., p. 278. CHAPTER VII. ORDER IV. — ASCIDIOIDA. " As soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood nymphs lie." — SOUTHEY. IF we turn to the proceedings of the police courts, we occasionally are edified with a...

...place of 1'aradise. * * * And here were cora! bowers, And grots of madrepores, And banks of sponge, as soft and fair to eye As e'er was mossy bed Whereon the wood-nymphs lie With languid limbs in Summer's sultry hours. Here, too, were living (lowers, Which,...

...body, spread their coronet of tentaculae, and become the living flowers which Southey has described : "Here, too, were living flowers, Which like a bud compacted, Their purple lips contracted ; And now, in open blossoms spread, Stretched like green anthers many a seeking head...

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...had ever gazed on : — It was a garden still beyond all price; E'en yet it was a place of paradise. Here, too, were living flowers, Which, like a bud compacted, Their purple cups contracted, Now, in open blossom spread, Stretched, like green anthers, many a seeking head. Others, like the broad...

...admiration, and Mrs. Morton repeated what the poot Southey says of the productions of the sea : — " Here too were living flowers, Which, like a bud compacted, Their purple beads contracted ; And now in open blossoms spread Stretch'd, like green anthers, many a seeking head."...