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child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the den of the cockatrice.

Rise crown'd with light, &c.

The thoughts that follow to the end of the Poem, are wonderfully elevated, and much above those general exclamations of Virgil which make the loftiest parts of his Pollio.

Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo!
——— toto surget gens aurea mundo!
——— incipient magni procedere menses!
Aspice, venturo lætentur ut omnia sæclo! &c.

The reader needs only turn to the passages of Isaiah, as they are cited in the margins of the preceding Eclogue.

 

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