To curl old ocean, aiid to warm the shiesw

And now, rejok^ng in the prosperous galas.
With beating heart, Ulysses spreads his sails ;
PUkcM at the hekn he sate, and mailed Hie sfciefy
Nor dos'd m sleep his ever-watchful eyes«
There view'd the Pleiads, and th« Northan tssiB|
And great Ononis more refulgent beami
To whSoh, around the axle of the sky
The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye s
Who shines exalted on tli' etherial plain.
Nor hathas his blaziag forehead in the maim
Far on the loft thooe radiant firo to kec|>
The nymph directed, as he sail'd the deep.
Full seventeen nights he cut the foamy way :
The distant land appeared the following day i
Then aveird to sight PhsMcia's dusky coast,
And woody mountains, half in vapours lost :
Tliat lay before him, indistinct and vast.
Like a broad shield amid the watery wastes

But him, thus voyaging the deeps below.
From far, en Solyme's aifrial brow.
The king of ocean saw, and seehig bum'd •
(From .Ethiopia's happy dimes ratum'd) {
The raging monaroh shook his asnie heikl,
Aud thus in secret to his soul he said :
*' Heavens ! how uncertain are the powen oo hi^ ^
Is then revers'd the sentence of the sky,
In one man's favour ; while a distant gnest
I shar'd secure the .^Ithiopian foast ?
Behold how near iPheacia's land he draws!
The laad, affix'd by fkte's eternal laws
To end his toils. Is then Our anger vam i
No ; if this sceptic yet commands the main.^

He spoke, and, high the forhy trident huvi'd.
Rolls clouds on clouds, and stirs the'watery world,.
At once the face of earth and sea deforms.
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Down rosb'iUie^Sl^t : E;!^ W^st, togtthcr ro«ir;
And South, ao^ North, joW piountaius to t}ie #l)Qre^
Tbcft $book the hero, to despair resigiiM,
And qiiestion'd thus bis yet Uf^XHiquer'd fnuod '

" Wretch tb^t I «in ! what farther £ate8 att|«Ml
This life 9i tuils, aod what my destined end ?
Tbo well, alas ! the island gcjddeis kuew,
On the bl^qk sea what perils should emue.
New horroqrs now this 4ostin*d head enclose ;
UnfiJl'd is yet the measure of my woes ^
Wit|i i|bat a doad the brou-s of Ueavea are crqym'd !
What ragio^ winds ! v))at roarjug waters round !
nis Joire himsfilf the swelUog tempests rears ;
Death, present death, qd every side appears.
Happy ! thrice happy ! who, ia battle slain,
Pieiit, in Atrides* cause, t)ie Tfojan playi :
Oh ! h^ I dy'd before that vi^ll-lbught wall 3
Had soiae distinguish'd day reuown'd my fadi
(Sacfa'as tvas that, when showers of javelins fled
From congvering Troy aroi^id AchiUes dead) :
AU Greece had paid me solemn funerals tbei^
And spread my glory with the ions of men.
A sham^^ £ale now hides my hapless head,
fiMKept, unpaged, and for evar dead 1''

$. mifl^i^ wave rush'd o'er him as he sp<^ -
The.Fsft it opver'di and th^ f(\ast it broke ;
Swept from tl^ de^k, and frpip ti^ redder torn.
Far on tbes7««Uing surge t^e chif£ w^ bprae :
While by the hovilpig tempest rent in twain
Flew sail and sail-yards rattlii^ o'er the main*
Longpress'd, he heav'd beneath tbe weighty wave,
Cl9^d by the cumlyons vest Calypso gave :
At length, emerging from his ngsti^ls wide
Aod pshiag tQOuth, elfus'd the btri^y tide,
£v^ then not mindless of his last retreat.
He setp'd thie laft, and le^ i^to his ^at,
BuQOf with the fev pf death. Tbe rolling flood
K«w heoe, now there, impelPd t^kp flqatii^ frood.
Ai when a beap of gat^r'd t^ocns is cast
Kow to, notf fro, before th' ^^tu^^ial hlf^st;
Tofotlirr elnog, it rolls mfmp4 the |«e(d ;
So ipU'd U^ float, wl 80 U^ taxturehokl :
And now t^e South, and vuotw the North, hear «way.
And pov the East the foamy floqd^ obciy.
Aid now the West wind irhirls it o'er the^^.
^te Wjyndering chief^ with toils on toils oppre^
Lencothea saw, and pity touched her breast
(Herself a movtal once, of Cadmus' strain,
Bntnov an iizme sister of the main).
Swift as a sea-ioew springipg Crom the flood :
AU TBdiant on the ran t^ god<l«iSs stood <
Then thus AC^reia'd )um : *' T^9^ mhim Heaven

decree
To Nqitq^e's v^thj «tem tyrai^t of the ^94*
(Unequal contest !) not his rage and power,
Gfeat as be is, such Tbrtna shall devour.
What I suggest, thy wisdom will perform ;
Fonake thy ik)a|, and leare it to the storm ;
Strip oflT thy garments ; Neptune^s fury brave
With naked strength, and plunge into the wave.
To reach Phseacia all thy nerves extend.
There fate decreet thy iniieri^ shall end.
This heavenly scarf beneath thy bosom bind,
And live ; give all thy tecrono to the wind.
Sson as tiiy arms the happy shore shall gain,
.Retom the gift, i|nd cast it in the mam -,
Observe my orders, and with heed obey,
€«ft k fiitr oO; and torn thy eyes.away."
ITith that, her band the sacied veil bestows,
PwtdMi albe#e pi ihB < IiT *dfaiwMacflilwwic»



A moment spfttch'd tl^ shining larv nray'.
And a)l was cover'd with the curling sea.

St(^ok F*th amaze, yet stiU to doqht iodin'd.
He stands s^ispeoded, and CKplores his mind.
** What shall 1 do? Unhappy me ! who knows
BvU other gods intend me other ivoes ?
Whoe'er thou art, I ahaU not Uindly jofai
Thy pleads reason, but consult with mine 1
For scacoe in ken afyioan that distant iaie.
Thy voice foretds me shall conulode my toil.
Thus thep 1 judgre^ while yet the planks sustain
The wild wave3»' fury» here I fia d remain :
But when their textnre to the tempestf yields,
I laxn:tk adventurous on the liquid fielda,
Join to the belp of gods the strength of fpan.
And take this method, since the best I can.^'

While thus his thoughts an anxians connoil
. Md

The raging god a watery mountain rolled ;
Ti&e a Mack sheet the whelming hiUov spread
Bursty o'er the float, and tbunder'd on his head.
Planks, bq^uns^ disparted fly :. tbe scattered wood
Rolls ^h^rse, and in firagments strows the flood.
So the rude JBoceas, o'er the fields new-ehom.
Tosses find drives the soatter'd heaps <d com.
And now a single beam the chief beatndes ;
There pois'd a while above the bounding tides,
Hi^ IJmhs discumhers of the dinging rest,
An() binds the saaned dnotttre round his breast x
Then prune on ocean in a moment flung,
Stretob'd wide his eager arms, iiid shot the seas
All naked now, on hcusving billows laid, [along.
Stem Neptune ey'd him, and contemptuoos said :

" Go, learn'd in i«qm, ^nd other woes essay!
Go, wander halpleaa on the eatery wsay :
Thus, thus find out the destin'd shore, and theo
( If Jove ordains it) mix with happier men.
Whate'er thy ^te, the ills our wrath could rave '
Shall last cemember'd in thy best of days."

This said, his sea-green steeds divide the foans.
And reach high .^g» and the towery dome.

Now, scarce withdsawn the fierce carth-Bh|ikinf
power,
Jove's daughter, Pallas, watoh'd the fiavouiing hour.
Back to their caves she bade the winda to fiy.
And hush'd the Uustering brethren of the sky.
The drier blasts alone of Boreas sway.
And beaj him soft on hmken waves away ;
Witl\ gentle force impellmg to that shore.
Where ftUe has destin'd be shall toil no more.
And now two nights, and now two dsiye were past.
Since wide he wander'd on the watery waste :
Heav'd on the surge with i^tei mitting hreath,
And hourly panting in the arms of death.
The third £ur mom now blaa'd upon tbe main;
Then glassy smooth Uy all the liquid plain -,
The winds were hush'd, tbe billows scarce^ ovaV^
And ^ dead silence still'd the winery world ;
When lifted on a ridgy wave he 'spies
The laud at distance, and with sharpea'd 9fm.
As pious children joy with vast delight
When a lov'd sire revives before their sight,
(Who, lingering long has call'd on death in vain»
Fix'd by some demon to his bed of pain.
Till Heaven by mirade his life restore) ;
So joys Ulysses at th' appearing sliote.
And sees (and laboucs onward as he sees)
The rising forests and the tufted trees.
And now, as near ai^roaching as the sound
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AmicUt the roclts he hears a hollow roar

Of murmuring surges breaking on the shore :

Nor peaceful port was there, nor w nding bay.

To shield the vessel fVom the rolling sea,

But cliffs, and shaggy shores, a dreadful sight !

All rough with rocks, with foaming billows white.

Fear seiz'd his slackened limbs and beating heart ;

As thus commun'd he with his soul apart :

" Ah me ! when, o'er a length of waters tost.
These eyes at last behold th^ mihop*d-for coast.
No port receives me from the angry main.
But the loud deeps demand me back again.
Abov^ sharp rocks forbid access ; around,
Roar the wild waves; beneath is sea profound! •
No footing sure affords the faithless sand.
To stem too rapid, and too deep to stand.
]f here I enter, my efforts are vain,
DashM on the cliffs, or heavM mto the main ;
Or round the island if my course I bond,
Where the ports open, or the shores descend.
Back to the seas the rolling surge may sweep,
And bury all my hopes beneath the deep.
Or. some enormous whale the god may send,
(For many such on Amphitrite attend)
Too well the turns of mortal chance I know,
And hate relentless of my heavenly foe.*'

While thus he thought, a monstrous wave upbore
The chief, and dashM him on the craggy shore :
Tom was his skin, nor had the ribs been whole,
But instant Pallas entered in his soul.
Close to the cliff with both his hands he clui\g.
And stuck adherent, and suspended hung ;
Till the huge surge roUM off": then, backward sweep
The refluent tides, and plunge him in the deep.
As when the polypus, from forth his cave
Tom with full force, reluctant beats the wave :
His ragged claws are stuck with stones and sands :
So the rough rock had shaggM Ulysses hands.
And now had perish'd, whelmM beneath tlie main,
Th» unhappy man : ev'n fate had been in vain:
But all-subduing Pallas lent her power.
And pmdence sav'd him in the needful hour.
Beyond the beating surge his course he bore,
(A wider circle, but in sight of shore)
With longing eyes, observing, to survey
Some smooth ascent, or safe-sequester'd bay.
Between the parting rocks at length he 'spy'd
A falling stream with gentler waters glide ;
Where to the seas the shelving shore declin'd,
And form'd a bay impervious to the wind.
To this calm port the glad Ulysses prest.
And haird the river, and iLs god addrcst :

" Whoe'er thou art, before whose stream un-
known
I bend, a suppliant at thy watery throne.
Hear, azure king ! not let me Ay in vain
To thee from Neptune and the raging main.
Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me.
For sacred ev'n to gods is misery :
Ix't then thy waters give the weary rest,
And save a suppliant, and a man distrest."

He pray'd, and straight the gentle stream
subsides.
Detains the rushing current of his tides.
Before the wanderer smooths the watery way,
And soft receives him from the rolliug sea.
That moment, fainting as ho touch'd the shore.
He dropt his sinewy arms : his kncts no more
Performed their office, or his weight upheld :
His saoln heart heav'd; his bloated body ivrell'd :



From mouth and nose the briny torrent ran ;
And lost in lassitude lay all the man,
Deprived of voice, of motion, and of breath ;
The soul scarce waking in the arms of death.
Soon as warm life its wonted office found,
The mindful chief Leucothea*8 scarf unbound ;
Observant of her word, he tum'd aside
His head, and cast it on the rolling tide.
Behind him far, upon the purple waves
The waters wafl it, and the nymph receives.

Now parting from the stream, Ulysses found
A mossy bank, with pliant rashes crown'd !
The bank he pressM, and gently kisa'd the ground (
Where on the flowery herb as soft he lay,
I'hus to his soul the sage began to say :

** What will ye next ordain, ye powers on high ^
And yet, ah ! yet, what fates are we to try ?
Here by the stream, if I the night out-wear.
Thus spent already, how shall nature bear
The dews descending, and nocturnal air ;
Or chilly vapours, breathing firom the flood
When morning rises ? — If I take the wood.
And in thick shelter of innumerous boughs
Enjoy the comfort gentle sleep allows ; fpe^^

Though fencM from cold, and though my toil be
What savage beasts may wander in the waste I
Perhaps I yet may fall a bloody prey
To prowling bears, or lions in the way."

Thus long debating in himself he stood ;
At length he took the passage to the wood.
Whose shady horrours on a rising brow
Wav'd high, and frownM upon the stream below.
There grew two olives, closest of the grove.
With roots intwin'd, and branches interwove ; '
Alike their leaves, but not alike they smil'd
With sister fruits ; one fertile, one was wild.
Nor here the Sun^s meridian rays had power.
Nor Hind sharp-piercing, nor the rushing shower ;
The verdant arch so close its texture kept :
Beneath this covert great Uh'sses crept
Of gatherM leaves an ample bed he made [shade);
(Thick strown by tempest through the bowery
Where three at least might winter's cold defy,
Thousrh Boreas ragM along th' inclement sky.
This store, with joy the patient hero found.
And, sunk amidst them, heap'd the leaves around.
As some poor peasant, fated to reside
Komote from neighbours in a forest wide,
Stuflious to save what human wants require.
In embers heap'd, preserves the seeds of fire :
Hid in dry foliage thus Ulj'sses lies.
Till Pallas pour'd soft si umbers on his eyes;
And golden dreams (the gift of sweet repose)
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ARGUMENT.



Pallas, appearing in a dream to Nansicaa (the
daughter of Alcinous kinj; of Phseacia), com*
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fcl>es of state, in preparation to her nuptials.
Xaosicaa goes with her handmaids to the river ;
where while the garments are spread on the
bank, they divert themselves in sports. Their
jokes swake Ulysses, who, addressing himself
to the pirincess, is by her reliered and clothed,
and receives directions in what matlner to apply
b the klag and queen of the island.



WettE thrfi the weary wanderer sunt to rest,

And peaceful slumbers calm'd his anxious breast ;

The martial maid from Heaven's aerial height

Scift to Phxacia wing'd her rapid Sight.

In ei'fer times the soft Phaeacian train

In ease possest the wide Hyperian plain;

Till the Cyclopean race in arms arose,

A kwless nation of gigantic foes :

Then great Nausithotis from Hyperia far,

Through seds retreating from the sotind of war,

Thf recreant nation to fair Scheria led,

Where never science rearM her laurel I'd head:

There, roand his tribes, a strength of wall he raisM ;

To Heaven the glittering domes and temples blazM :

Justto his realms, he parted grounds from grounds,

And shar'd the lands, and gave the lands their bounds.

iVoir in the silent grave the monarch lay,

Aod wise Alcinous held the regal sway.

To h'ri high palace through the fields of air
The goddess shot : Uljrsses was her care.
There as the night in silence roli'd away,
A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay :
T/irottgh the thick gloom the shining portals blaze;
Two nymphs the portals guard, each nymph a

Grace.
lif bt as the viewless air the warrbr-maid
Glides throngh the valves, and hovers round her

head ;
A forourite virgin's blooming form she took,
From Dymas sprung, and thus the vision spoke:

** Oh indolent! to waste thy hours away I
Auff s^tcp'st thou careless of the bridal day ?
Tny spousal ornament neglected lies ;
Arise, prepare the bridal train, arise !
AJKt applause the cares of dress impart,
And ^.ve soft transport to a partiit's heart.
Ha«te, to the limpid stream direct thy way,
^Uen the gay morn unveils her sniiHog ray :
Haste to the stream I Compasiion of thy care,
lo, I tby steps attend, thy laboui-s bhnre.
VirriD. awake ! the marriage-hour is nigh,
^ 1 from their t.irones thy kindred nionarchs sigh ;
Th^myal r^ir at early dawn obtain,
And ord r mules obedient to tho rein ;
For roueh the way. and fi^^'nt ri>ll' th^i wave,
^here their fair vests Phjeicinn \irjln!* !avj.
h pomp riile forth ; for poui!>-b comes the j^reat,
Ad^ majesty derives a graee from state."

Then to the palaces of Hcavn shv sails,
hcu:Q\)f^l on the wings of waflin;; ttalt < :
The seat of pods ; the retrions inii ! oi peace.
Full Joy, an.l calm ctemitv of evise.
There no rude winds presume to shake the skies,
J^o rains descend, no snowy vap mrs rise ;
But on irumortal thrones the bl-iit repn«5e :
"Hie firmament with living sph'ndours rloftS,
Hither the goddess wing'd th' aerial way.
Though Heaven's etenud gates that biaz'd with day.
TOLXIX.



Now from her rosy car Aurora shed
The dawn, and all the orient flam'd with red*
tJprose the virgin with the morning light,
Obedient to the vision of the night.
The queen she sought: the queen her bou^

bestow'd
In curious works; the whirling spindle glow'd
With crimson threads, while busy damsels cull
The snowy fleece, or twist the purpled wool.
Meanwhile Phaeacia^s peers in council sate ;
From his high dome the king descends in state^
Then with a filial awe the royal maid
Approach'd him passing, and submissive said :

*' Will my dread sire his ear regardful deign.
And may his child the royal ear obtain ?
Say, with thy garments shall I bend my way,
Where through the vales the mazy waters stray }
A dignity of dress adorns the g*eat,
And kings draw lustre from the robe of state.
Five sons thou hast ; three wait the bridal day,
And spotless robes become the young and gay :
So when with praise amid the dance they shine.
By the^e my cares adorn'd, that praise is mme.**

Thus she : but blushes ill-restrain'd betray n
Her thoughts inlentive on the bridal day :
The conscious sire the dawning blush surveyed.
And smiling thus bespoke the blooming maid :
** My child, my darling joy, the car receive;
That, and whate'er our daughter asks, we give."*

Swift at the royal nod th' attending train
The car prepare, the mules incessant rein.
The blooming virgin witl) dispatchful cares
Tunics, and stoles, and robes imperial, bean.
The queen, assidtious, to her train assigns
The sumptuous viands, and the flavorous winefl»
The train prepare a cruise of curious mould,
A cruise of fragrance, form'd of bumisb'd gold j
Odour divine ! whose soft refreshing streams
Sleek the smooth skin, and scent the snowy limbw

Now mounting the gay scat, the silken reins
Shine in her hand : along the sounding plains
Swift fly the mules: nor rode the nymph alone ;
Around, a bevy of bright damsels shone.
They seek th« cisterns where Phxaci-^n (lames
Wash their fair tfcirments in the limpi'l streams;
Wh( re, gathcrliiir into denlii f»ojn filling rills.
The lucid wove a spacious ba-son fills.
The mules unl»arn^^s'd rang.- besldt; th*; main.
Or crop tho verdant herbai;e of the plain.

Then cniuious the royal roa-js they lave,
And plunge the vestur s in tiie cleansing wave ;
(The vosturei clean»'d oVrsprmuI the s^u-lly sandy
Their snowy luL^tre whit( n<! ail tiie >itran'l:j
Then with a short np"«t rcl-eve their toil.
And o'er their liinl> (jifuse aMihrO'-ial oil ;
.ind, wl ile t^e rohc« inil>i'.jc the solar ray,
O'er the green mead ll^e spurting virgins play
(Th'^ir sliiiiing vclh uubniuid). Along the skiet
To t. RU'I reto*it, th'- ball incca'ant flies.
Tiit-y snort, they f^a^t ; Naubi^aa tiTts her voice,
An.l, w'lrhl'.n.; sweet, makes i'dith and Heavtflf

As wht n o'er Frrmanth Diana rove^,
Or '.vide Tay^etns' rc'sunnilin;^ irroves :
V «y!vin tia'n the hun*re.^s (;;it-;:n surrounds,
l.ir r-'ftiin? q.'ivi r fijin licr s'mal'ier sornr^s :
Fi'Tee ill thr sso:>rt, al.vv:^ the mo'-.ntnlo's brow
Th';y bay tl»'^ I'Oar, or e!in>-"'' tin: !fO'Uiliig roe:
Niiih o'er the lawn wirU nicrt? rrau'^^'e p°ce,
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Pii»tingiii8hM eaccellence the goddess proves ;
Bxults LAtooa, as the virgin moves.
With, equal grace Naisicaa trod the plain*
And shone transcendent o'er the beauteous train.
Meantime (th<s care and favourite of the skies)
Wrapt in embowering «hade, UlysjJcs lies,
liis woes forgot! but Pallas now nddrest
To break the bands of all-composing rest
Forth from her snowy hand Nausicaa threw
The varioQS ball; the ball erroneous flew,
Apd swam the stream i loud shrieks the virgin train,
And the loud shriek redoubles from the main.
Wak*d by the shrilling sotind, Ul3rsses rose.
And, to the deaf woods wailing, breath'd hiK woes :

'* Ah me ! on what inhospitable coast.
Or what new region, is Ulysses tost :
Possest by wild barbarians fierce in arms ;
Of men, whose bosom tender pity wamas ?
What sounds are tb*se that gather from the shores :
The voice of nymphs that haunt the sylvan bowers,
The (air-hair'd Dryads of the shady wood ;
Or azure daughters of the silver flood ;
i h- human voice ? but, issuing from the shades,
Why cease t straight to learn what sound invades?"
Tlico, where the grove with leaves unbragepos
bends
With fbrce(ul strength a branch the hero rends ;
Around his loins the verdant cincture spreads
A wreathy foliage and concealmg shades.
At when a lion in the midnight hours,
Beat by rude blasts, and wet with wintery showers.
Descends terrific from the nunmtain's brow :
With living flames his rolling eye-balls glow ;
With.coDScioiit strength date, he b«iids his way.
Majestically fierce, to tdzc his prey
(The steer or stag) : or with keen hunger bold,
Springs o*er the ^ce, and dissipatet t^e foldh
No leas a terroul, horn the neighbooring grpvea
(Rough finom the tosimg surge) Ulysses moves ;
Urg'd OB by want, and recent from the storms $
Tlie brackish ooze his manly face deforms.
Wde o^er the shire with many a piercing cry
To rocks, to caves, the frighted virgins fly :
All but the nymph : the nymph stood fix'd alone.
By PaUas arm*d with boldness not her own.
M^mtime in dubious thought the king awaits.
And, self-considering, as he stands, debates ;
Distanrhis monrnfol story to declare,
-Or prostrate at her knee address the prayer.
But fearfhl to offend, by Wisdom sway'd.
At awful distance he accosts the maid :

*' If from the skies a goddess, or if Earth
(Imperial virgin) boast thy glorious birth.
To thee I bend ! if in that bright disguise
Thou visit Earth, a daughter of the skies,
.Hail, Dian, bail ! the huntress of the groves
So f^hiiies majestic, and so stately moves.
So breathes an air divine ! But if thy race
Be mortal, and this Earth thy native place,
^lest is the father from whose loins yoti sprong
, BloBt ir the mother at whose breast you hung,
Biest are the brethren who thy blood divide.
To such a miracle of charms ally'd :
Joyful they see applauding princes gaze.
When stately in the dance you swim th' harmoni-
ous maze.
But blest o'er all, the youth with heavenly charms,
Who olasps the bright perfection in his arms !
Never, I never view*d till this blest hour
Svcfa finifthM gra«e! I gaxe, and I tdort!



Thus seems the palm with stately hononfs CTOwn'4
By Phtebus' altars ; thus overlooks the gfound,
l*he pride of Delos. (By the Delikn coast,
I voyag*d, leader of a warrior-host,
But ah, how changM ! from thence my sorrow
O fatal voyage, source of all my woes !) [flowf }
RaptorM I stood, and, as this hour amaz'd,
With reverence at the lofty wonder gazM ;
Raptur'd I statid; for Earth ne'er knew to bear
A plant so stately, or a njrmph so fair.
Aw'd from access, I lift my suppliant hands;
For misery, O queen, before thee stands ! ,
Twice ten tempestuous nights I roll*d resign'.4
To roaring billows, and the warring wind ;
Heaven bade the deep to spare ! but Heaven, my
Spares only to inflict some mightier woe; [foe,
InurM to care, to death in all its forms ;
Outcast I rove, familiar with the storms!
Once more 'I view the face of human-kind :
Oh, let soft pity touch thy generous miud !
Unconscious of what air I breathe, I stand
Naked, defenceless^ on a foreign land.
Propitious to my wants a vest supply
To guard the wretched from th' inclement sky:
So may the gods, who Heaven and Earth control,
Crown the chaste wishes of thy virtuous soul.
On thy soft hours their choicest blessings shed {
Blest with a husband be thy bridal bed ;
Blest be thy husband with a blooming race.
And lasting union crown your blissful days.
The gods, when they supremely bless, bestow
Firm nnion on their favourites below :
Then envy grieves, with inly-pining hate ;
The good exult, and Heaven is in our state."

To whom the nymph : " O stranger, cease thy care^