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The cracking crystal yields:—she sinks!-—she dies.—
Her head, chopt off, from her lost shoulders flies.
'Pippins!' she cried; but death her voice confounds,
And 'Pip-Pip-Pip-' along the ice resounds.392
So, when the Thracian furies Orpheus tore,
And left his bleeding trunk deform'd with gore,
His sever'd head floats down the silver tide,395
His yet warm tongue for his lost consort cried:
'Eurydice!' with quiv'ring voice he mourn'd;
And Hebe's banks 'Eurydice' return'd.
But now the western gale the flood unbinds,
And black'ning clouds move on with warmer winds;
The wooden town its frail foundation leaves,401
And Thames' full urn rolls down his plenteous waves:
From ev'ry penthouse streams the fleeting snow,
And with dissolving frost the pavements flow.
Experienc'd men, inur'd to city ways,405
Need not the calendar to count their days.—
When through the town, with slow and solemn air,
Led by the nostril, walks the muzzled bear;
Behind him moves, majestically dull,
The pride of Hockley-hole, the surly bull;410