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As deep as Capricorn, to bring in change Of seasons to each clime. Else had the spring Perpetual smiled on earth with vernant flowers, Equal in days and nights, except to those Beyond the polar circles; to them day Had unbenighted shone, while the low sun, To recompense his distance, in their sight Had rounded still the horizon, and not known Or east or west, which had forbid the snow From cold Estotiland,1 and south as far Beneath Magellan.2 At that tasted fruit, The sun, as from Thyestean's banquet, turned His course intended; else, how had the world Inhabited, though sinless, more than now, Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat? These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced Like change on sea and land; sidereal blast, Vapour, and mist, and exhalation hot, Corrupt and pestilent: now, from the north Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shore, Bursting their brazen dungeon, armed with ice, And snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw, Boreas, and Cæcias, and Argestes loud, And Thrascias, rend the woods, and seas upturn; With adverse blasts upturns them from the south Notus, and Afer, black with thunderous clouds From Sierra Liona; thwart of these, as fierce, Forth rushed the Levant and the Ponent winds Eurus and Zephyr, with their lateral noise, Sirocco and Libecchio. Thus began Outrage from lifeless things; but Discord first,

And now expecting Each hour their great adventurer from the search Of foreign worlds.

Book X., lines 439-441.

¹ Estotiland .- Greenland

Magellan. - The straits of Magellan.

^\ Thyestean.—A reference to the story which describes Atreus as giving to his brother Thyestes the flesh of his one as food. From the sight of a father feed: sons as food. From the sight of a father feeding upon his own children the sun is said to have turned away.

^\ Norumbega. —In northern America. Samoed. —In the north east of Muscovy. \*Boreas, and Cacias, &c.—The names which follow are names of winds, or of places where winds of an unusual