The lilies are wet with the dew--the sunbeams with a kiss
gently touch the flower of the roses.--O the garden is rich of
scent--is bright of hue.--Arise Feronia and weave the garland
even now to braid thy ravenlike hair, lest at mid-day the sun
should spoil the flowers.--In the sky there is a little cloud,
gentle whisperings come with the gale--they tell of rain or
snow.--Arise Feronia and carefully weave the garland to bind up
thy hair, lest the threatening storm should come.

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ASTRONOMICAL OCCURRENCES FOR AUGUST, 1827.

(_For the Mirror._)


It has been computed, that all the celestial orbs perceived by the
unassisted eye (which on a clear night never exceed 1,000,) do not form
the 80,000 part of those which may be descried by the help of a
telescope, through which they appear prodigiously increased in number;
seventy stars have been counted in the constellation of the _pleiades_,
and no fewer than 2,000 in that of _Orion_.

The _galaxy_, or _via lactea_, (milky way,) is a remarkable appearance
in the heavens, being a broad ray of whitish colour surrounding the
whole celestial concave, whose light proceeds from vast clusters of
stars, discoverable only by the telescope. Mr. Brydone, in his journey
to the top of Mount Etna, found the phenomenon make a most glorious