How picturesque the following--
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A fresher green the smiling leaves display,And, _glittering as they tremble_, cheer the day!" The description of the unveiled angel approaches thesublime-- "Fair rounds of radiant points invest his hair;Celestial odours breathe through purpled air;And wings, whose colours glitter'd on the day,Wide at his back, their gradual plumes display.The form ethereal bursts upon his sight,And moves in all the majesty of light." A passage of similar brilliance occurs in "Piety, or theVision"-- "A sudden splendour seem'd to kindle day;A breeze came breathing in; a sweet perfume,_Blown from eternal gardens_, fill'd the room,And in a void of blue, that clouds invest,Appear'd a daughter of the realms of rest." Such passages themselves are enough to prove Parnell atrue poet. * * * * *
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