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320 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE IV -CranSlatc into Eattu f&cjranutcvs Hail Nature's utmost boast unrivall'd Greece My fairest reign where every power benign Conspired to raise the flower of human kind And lavish'd all that genius can inspire Clear sunny climates by the breezy main Ionian or iEgean temper'd kind Light airy soils country rich and gay Broke into hills with balmy odours crown'd And bright with purple harvest joyous vales Mountains and streams where verse spontaneous flow'd Whence deem'd by wondering men the seat of gods And still the mountains and the streams of song All that boon Nature could luxuriant pour Of high materials and my restless arts Frame into finish'd life How many states And clustering towns and monuments of fame And scenes of glorious deeds in little bounds From the rough tract of bending mountains beat By Adria's here there by iEgean waves To where the deep-adorning Cyclade Isles In shining prospect rise and on the shore Of farthest Crete resounds the Libyan main V-Craniate into iUttn The first words that Julian uttered after his recovery from the fainting fit into which he had been thrown by loss of bloud were expressive of his martial spirit He called for his horse and arms and was impatient to rush into the battle His remaining strength was exhausted by the painful effort and the surgeons