The Pendulum Clock

This is a printer's mark indicating the second leaf of the fifth gathering of the book.

THE ECLOGUE OF DAPHNIS.

For at that time, the Satyrs Nature spirits of the wild and the phalanx of Sileni Elderly, wise followers of Bacchus were of aid to the inhabitants of heaven; they came crying out the name of Bacchus upon their little donkeys, armed with the Thyrsus A staff topped with a pinecone and shielded by bucklers made of gourds.
   Meanwhile, he tells how little winged Cupid came with his mother, fleeing toward the waters of the Assyrian Euphrates; and how they took on the forms of a scaly school of fish (deities thereafter to the Syrian people). Now, as the golden lights of the twin Pisces, they are joined to Capricorn through the star-bearing circle, unless Aquarius, positioned in the middle, separates them with his poured-out Urn.
   Nor does he fail to recount the rains of Deucalion The Greek "Noah" who survived the great flood, or how many cups of nectar Ganymede The cupbearer to the gods pours out; whether that figure be Cecrops, the distinguished founding-king of Athens in his ceremonial robe; or the shepherd Aristaeus carrying his full beehives, beneath which you bees flit in a dense swarm.
   He tells how the curved Dolphin carried Arion, and tells of Danaë’s son Perseus, carried in a different manner; and of Cepheus, Andromeda, and mournful Cassiopeia; and the vast, gaping maw of the Sea-Monster The constellation Cetus set into the heavens. Near this, the Eridanus river of Phaëthon shines in a long winding curve, closest to the sloping South.
   Recently, near the axis of the hidden pole, the Dutch original: "Batavos" beheld new scaly images shimmering: the skillful Dutch, whether there is need to hunt fish in the lowest depths or stars in the high heavens.
   Then he sings how Daphnis saw Urania The Muse of Astronomy teaching beneath a sacred rock: how the woods learned the clear songs, and the hollow mountains learned the songs by repetition. He sings how the ancient Chaldeans and the Babylonian crowd stood around as listeners, captured by the wonderful sweetness; then those whom the Greek land or the land of the Nile brought forth; those from Italy, and beautiful Rome with her Caesar. After them came men of Arabian stock and the Iberian ruler; and finally those whom Germany sent, learned in the stars and the sky, who observe the constellations of their own land. Nor is Gaul France found wanting, inferior to none; Gaul, proud in the splendor of her great-souled King, for whom the high ether brings forth the Bourbon fires A reference to the French royal house of Bourbon.
   Then he sings of the love with which the Goddess embraced Daphnis, and Daphnis the Goddess—a love of which even the rocks of Latmos The site where the Moon goddess visited her lover Endymion were not so aware.