LXXIX. To the North Wind

The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE.

BOREAS, whose wint'ry blasts, terrific, tear

The bosom of the deep surrounding air;

Cold icy pow'r, approach, and fav'ring blow,

And Thrace a while desert expos'd to snow:

The misty station of the air dissolve, 5

With pregnant clouds, whose frames in show'rs resolve:

Serenely temper all within the sky,

And wipe from moisture, Æther's beauteous eye.

LXXX.