Awake Aurora! and across all airs By brilliant blazon banish boreal bears. Crossing cold Canope’s celestial crown, Deep darts descending dive delusive down. Entranced each eve Europa’s every eye Firm fixed forever fastens faithfully, Greets golden guerdon gloriously grand; How Holy Heaven holds high his hollow hand! Ignoble ignorance, inapt indeed— Jeers jestingly just Jupiter’s jereed: Knavish Kamschatkans, knightly Kurdsmen know, Long Labrador’s light lustre looming low; Midst myriad multitudes majestic might No nature nobler numbers Neptune’s night. Opal of Oxus or old Ophir’s ores Pale pyrrhic pyres prismatic purple pours,— Quiescent quivering, quickly, quaintly queer, Rich, rosy, regal rays resplendent rear; Strange shooting streamers streaking starry skies Trail their triumphant tresses—trembling ties. Unseen, unhonored Ursa,—underneath Veiled, vanquished—vainly vying—vanisheth: Wild Woden, warning, watchful—whispers wan Xanthitic Xeres, Xerxes, Xenophon, Yet yielding yesternight yule’s yell yawns Zenith’s zebraic zigzag, zodiac zones. Pulci, in his _Morgante Maggiore_, xxiii. 47, gives the following remarkable double alliterations, two of them in every line:— La _casa cosa_ parea _bretta_ e _brutta_, _Vinta_ dal _vento_, e la _natta_ e la _notte_, _Stilla_ le _stelle_, ch’a _tetto_ era _tutta_, Del _pane_ ap_pena_ ne _dette_ ta’ _dotte_; _Pere_ avea _pure_ e qualche _fratta frutta_, E _svina_ e _scena_ di _botto_ una _botte_; _Poscia_ per _pesci_ _lasche_ prese al_l’esca_, Ma il _letto_ al_lotta_ alla _frasca_ fu_fresca_. In the imitation of Laura Matilda, in the _Rejected Addresses_ occurs this stanza:— Pan beheld Patroclus dying, Nox to Niobe was turned; From Busiris Bacchus flying, Saw his Semele inurned. TITLE-PAGE FOR A BOOK OF EXTRACTS FROM MANY AUTHORS.