His languid limbs upon a couch she laid.
fragrant couch of new blown viles made,

Mackenzie se

roses cround.

BASIA.

BASIUM I

CUM Venus Ascanium super alta Cythera tu

lisset,

Sopitum teneris imposuit violis;

Albarum nimbos circumfuditque rosarum.
Et totum liquido sparsit odore locum.

[Cum Venus Ascanium, &c.] This is an imitation of the

following lines from Virgil:

At Venus Ascanio placidam per membra quietem
Irrigat: et fotum gremio Dea tollit in altos
Idaliæ lucos, ubi mollis amaracus illum

Floribus et dulci aspirans com plectitur umbrâ.

VIRG. ENEID. LIB. I.

KISSES.

KISS I.

WHEN young Ascanius, by the Queen of Love,
Was borne to sweet Cythera's lofty grove,

His languid limbs upon a couch she laid,
A fragrant couch! of new-blown vi'lets made;
The blissful bow'r with shadowing roses crown'd
And balmy-breathing airs diffus'd around.

Mean time the Goddess on Ascanius throws
A balmy slumber, and a sweet repose;
Lull'd in her lap to rest, the Queen of Love
Conveyed him to the high Idalian grove:
There on a flow'ry bed her charge she laid,
And, breathing round him, rose the fragrant shade.

PITT.