(_f_) Plato: [Greek: Prôton men gar tria ên ta genê ta tôn anthrôpôn (sc. [Greek: arren, thêly, kai androgynon]). Mox addit, [Greek: Esti dê oun ek tosou ho erôs emphytos allêlôn tois anthrôpois kai tês archaias physeôs synagôgeus kai epicheirôn poiêsai hen ek duoin, <kai> iasasthai tên physin tên anthrôpinên.] Phil. Jud. [Greek: peri tês kosmopoiias. Epei de eplasthê hê gynê theasamenos adelphon eidos kai syngenê morphên êsmenise tê thea erôs de epiginomenos kathaper henos zôon ditta tmêmata diestêkota synagôgôn eis tauton harmottetai.] ] POEMS _The Glow-worm._ Stay, fairest Chariessa, stay and mark This animated gem, whose fainter spark Of fading light its birth had from the dark. A Star thought by the erring passenger, Which falling from its native orb dropt here, And makes the earth (its centre) now its sphere. Should many of these sparks together be, He that the unknown light far off should see, Would think it a terrestrial Galaxy. Take 't up, fair Saint; see how it mocks thy fright! 10 The paler flame doth not yield heat, though light, Which thus deceives thy reason, through thy sight. But see how quickly it (ta'en up) doth fade, To shine in darkness only being made, By th' brightness of thy light turn'd to a shade; And burnt to ashes by thy flaming eyes, On the chaste altar of thy hand it dies, As to thy greater light a sacrifice. [_The Glow-worm._] Sir Egerton Brydges thought that 'A stile of poetry so full of quaint and far-fetched conceits cannot be commended as the most chaste and classical'; but that, 'among trifles of this kind, _The Glow-worm_ is singularly elegant and happy'. Perhaps a later judgement, while waiving the indispensableness, or even pre-eminence, of chastity and classicality in verse, may doubt whether _The Glow-worm_ itself is not rather too 'elegant' to be as 'happy' as some other things even of its author's. The last verse redeems it, though, to some extent.] [Line: 2 _1647_ 'This living star of earth'. I suppose Stanley did not like the recurrence of 'star', or he may have thought that the same sound (-_ar_) recurred still more excessively in the rhymes. In itself the earlier reading is certainly the better.] [Line: 4 erring] deceiv'd _1647_.] [Line: 12 'Which doth deceive' _1647_.] [Line: 15 thy] the _1647_.] _The Breath._