III.

Then in full fenate of the deities,

Settling the feats of power, and future fate,

Juno began the high debate,

And with this righteous fentence pleas'd the skies:

"O Troy! fhe faid, O hated Troy!

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"A* foreign woman, and a † boy,

“Lewd, partial, and unjust,

"Shook all thy proudest towers to dust;

"Inclin'd to ruin from the time,

"Thy king did mock two powers divine,

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"And ras'd thy fated walls in perjury, "But doubly damn'd by that offence, "Which did Minerva's rage incenfe, "And offer'd wrong to me.

"No more the treacherous ravisher

"Shines in full pomp and youthful charms;

"Nor Priam's impious house with Hector's fpear,

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Repels the violence of Grecian arms,

IV.

"Our feuds did long embroil the mortal rout, "At last the storm is spent,

My fury with it ebbing out,

"These terms of peace content;

“To Mars I grant among the stars a place "For his fon Romulus, of Trojan race;

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"Here fhall he dwell in these divine abodes, "Drink of the heavenly bowl,

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"And in this shining court his name enrol,

"With the ferene and ever-vacant gods; "While feas fhall rage between his Rome and Troy, "The horrid diftance breaking wide, "The banifh'd Trojans shall the globe enjoy,

"And reign in every place befide;

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"While beasts infult my judge's duft, and hide "Their litter in his curfed tomb,

"The fhining capitol of Rome

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"Shall overlook the world with awful pride, "And Parthians take their law from that eternal

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V.

"Let Rome extend her fame to every shore;

"And let no banks or mounds restrain

"Th' impetuous torrent of her wide command; "The feas from Europe, Africk part in vain ; Swelling above those floods, her power

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'Shall, like its Nile, o'erflow the Lybian land. "Shining in polifh'd fteel, fhe dares

"The glittering beams of gold defpife, "Gold, the great fource of human cares, "Hid wifely deep from mortal eyes, 'Till, fought in evil hour by hands unblest, Opening the dark abodes,

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"There iffued forth a direful train of woes,

"That give mankind no rest;

"For gold, devoted to th' infernal gods,

"No native human uses knows.

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VI. "Where'er

VI.

“Where'er great Jove did place

"The bounds of nature yet unfeen,
“He meant a goal of glory to the race
"The Roman arms fhall win :

"Rejoicing, onward they approach
“To view the outworks of the world,

"The maddening fires, in wild debauch,

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"The fnows and rains unborn, in endless eddies

"whirl'd!

VII.

" 'Tis I, O Rome, pronounce these fates behind,
"But will thy reign with this condition bind,
“That no falfe filial piety,

"In idle fhapes deluding thee,

"Or confidence of

power,

"Tempt thee again to raise a Trojan tower; "Troy, plac'd beneath malignant stars,

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"Haunted with omens ftill the fame, "Rebuilt, fhall but renew the former flame,

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"Jove's wife and fifter leading on the wars. "Thrice let her fhine with brazen walls, "Rear'd up by heavenly hands;

"And thrice in fatal dust she falls,

"Thrice the dire fcene fhall on the world return,

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"And captive wives again their fons and husbands

"mourn."

But

But stop, prefumptuous Mufe, thy daring flight,
Nor hope in thy weak lyric lay,

The heavenly language to display,
Or bring the counfels of the gods to light.

GREENWICH-PARK.

THE Paphian ifle was once the bleft abode

Of Beauty's goddess and her archer-god.

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There blissful bowers and amorous fhades were seen, Fair cypress walks, and myrtles ever green. 'Twas there, furrounded by a hallow'd wood, Sacred to love, a fplendid temple ftood; Where altars were with coftly gums perfum'd, And lovers fighs arofe, and smoke from hearts confum'd.

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Till, thence remov'd, the queen of beauty flies
To Britain, fam'd for bright victorious eyes.
Here fix'd, fhe chose a sweeter seat for love,
And Greenwich-park is now her Cyprian grove.
Nor fair Parnaffus with this hill can vie,
Which gently fwells into the wondering sky,
Commanding all that can tranfport our fight,
And varying with each view the fresh delight.
From hence my Mufe prepares to wing her way,
And wanton, like the Thames, through fmiling meads
would stray;

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Defcribe the groves beneath, the fylvan bowers,
The river's winding train, and great Augufta's towers.

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But fee!-a living profpect drawing near At once transports, and raises awful fear! Love's favourite band, selected to maintain His choiceft triumphs, and fupport his reign. Mufe, pay thy homage here-yet oh beware! And draw the glorious scene with artful care, For foolish praise is fatire on the fair.

Behold where bright Urania does advance, And lightens through the trees with every glance! A careless pleasure in her air is seen ;

Diana fhines with fuch a graceful mien,

When in her darling woods fhe's feign'd to rove,
The chace pursuing, and avoiding love.

At flying deer the goddess boafts her aim,

Th' unerring fhafts fo various fly around,

But Cupid fhews the nymph a nobler game.

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'Tis hard to fay which gives the deepest wound.
Or if with greater glory we submit,
Pierc'd by her eyes, her humour, or her wit.

See next her charming fifter, young and gay,
In beauty's bloom like the sweet month of May!
The sportful nymph, once in the neighbouring grove
Surpris'd by chance the fleeping god of love;
His head reclin'd upon a tuft of

green,

And by him scatter'd lay his arrows bright and keen;
She tied his wings, and stole his wanton darts,
Then, laughing, wak'd the tyrant lord of hearts;
He fmil'd, and faid-'Tis well, infulting fair!
Yet how you sport with fleeping Love beware!
My lofs of darts I quickly can fupply,
Your looks fhall triumph for Love's deity :

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