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Zóphiël ; or, the bride of seven

Brooks, Maria Gowen (1794 or 5-1845)

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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

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XLVII.

The soft Flower-Spirit shuddered, looked on high,
And from his bolder brother would have fled;
But then the anger kindling in that eye
He could not bear. So to fair Egla's bed
Followed, and looked; then, shuddering all with dread,
To wondrous realms unknown to men he led;
Continuing long in sunset course his flight,
Until for flowery Sicily he bent;
Then, where Italia smiled upon the night,
Between their nearest shores chose midway his descent.

Not far from the scene of Vulcan's labors: yet the regions sought by these spirits must have been very much deeper.


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