...h ' From northern cold to southern climes are drawn; 'And when hot Meroe pants beneath the sun, ' Then, say they, Ganges through the silent depths ' And Padus pass: and from a single fount ' The Nile arising not in single streams ' Pours all the rivers forth. And rumour says ' That when the sea which girdles in the world ' O'erflows, thence rushes Nile, by lengthy course, ' Softening his sal...