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THE TRIUMPHS Entering beneath a wide fantaftic arch, Round the drear circuit of the dome they march ; Which a pale flafh from many a fiery fprite Frequent illumes with intermitting light ; Such as on earth, to Superftition's eye, Denounces ruin from the northern fky, While {he difcerns, amid the nightly glare, Armies embattled in the blazing air. Around the nymph unnumber'd phantoms glide : Here fwell the bloated race of bulky Pride : In clofe and horrid union, there appear The wilder progeny of frantic Fear ; Mif-fhapen monfters ! whofe ftupendous frame Abhorrent Nature has refused to name. Here, in cameleon colours, lightly flit The motley offspring of diforder'd Wit. All things prodigious the wide cave contained, And forms, beyond what fable ever feign'd : But, as the worm, that on the dewy green Springs half to view, and half remains unfeen,