"As from the stream-stored vase with dubious ray The sun-beams dancing from the surface play; Now here, now there the trembling radiance falls, Alternate flashing round the illumined walls: Thus fluttering bounds the trembling virgin's blood, And from her eyes descends a pearly flood."
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Compare: — So from a brazen vase the trembling stream Reflects the lunar, or the solar beam: Swift and elusive of the dazzled eyes, From wall to wall the dancing glory flies: Thence to the cieling shoot the glancing rays, And over the roof the quivering splendor plays. — The Æneid of Virgil, tr. by Christopher Pitt (1740), VIII. 33–38 — So from a water clear, the trembling light Of Phoebus, or the silver queen of night, Along the spacious rooms with splendour plays, Now high, now low, and shifts
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