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When gods and men I saw in Cupid's chain	A
Promiscuous led a long uncounted train	A
By sad example taught I learn'd at last	B
Wisdom's best rule to profit from the past	B
Some solace in the numbers too I found	C
Of those that mourn'd like me the common wound	C
That Phoebus felt a mortal beauty's slave	D
That urged Leander through the wintry wave	D
That jealous Juno with Eliza shared	E
Whose more than pious hands the flame prepared	E
That mix'd her ashes with her murder'd spouse	F
A dire completion of her nuptial vows	G
For not the Trojan's love as poets sing	H
In her wan bosom fix'd the secret string	H
And why should I of common ills complain	A
Shot by a random shaft a thoughtless swain	A
Unarm'd and unprepared to meet the foe	I
My naked bosom seem'd to court the blow	I
One cause at least to soothe my grief ensued	J
When I beheld the ruthless power subdued	J
And all unable now to twang the string	H
Or mount the breeze on many colour'd wing	H
But never tawny monarch of the wood	K
His raging rival meets athirst for blood	L
Nor thunder clouds when winds the signal blow	I
With louder shock astound the world below	I
When the red flash insufferably bright	M
Heaven earth and sea displays in dismal light	M
Could match the furious speed and fell intent	N
With which the wing d son of Venus bent	N
His fatal yew against the dauntless fair	O
Who seem'd with heart of proof to meet the war	P
Nor Etna sends abroad the blast of death	Q
When wrapp'd in flames the giant moves beneath	R
Nor Scylla roaring nor the loud reply	S
Of mad Charybdis when her waters fly	S
And seem to lave the moon could match the rage	T
Of those fierce rivals burning to engage	T
Aloof the many drew with sudden fright	M
And clamber'd up the hills to see the fight	M
And when the tempest of the battle grew	U
Each face display'd a wan and earthy hue	U
The assailant now prepared his shaft to wing	H
And fixed his fatal arrow on the string	H
The fatal string already reach'd his ear	V
Nor from the leopard flies the trembling deer	W
With half the haste that his ferocious wrath	X
Bore him impetuous on to deeds of death	Q
And in his stern regard the scorching fire	Y
Was seen that burns the breast with fierce desire	Y
To me a fatal flame but hope to see	Z
My lovely tyrant forced to love like me	Z
And bound in equal chain assuaged my woe	I
As with an eager eye I watch'd the coming blow	I
But virtue as it ne'er forsakes the soul	A2
That yields obedience to her blest control	A2
Proves how of her unjustly we complain	A
When she vouchsafes her gracious aid in vain	A
In vain the self abandon'd shift the blame	B2
Upon their stars or fate's perverted name	B2
Ne'er did a gladiator shun the stroke	C2
With nimbler turn or more attentive look	D2
Never did pilot's hand the vessel steer	W
With more dexterity the shoals to clear	W
Than with evasion quick and matchless art	E2
By grace and virtue arm'd in head and heart	E2
She wafted quick the cruel shaft aside	F2
Woe to the lingering soul that dares the stroke abide	F2
I watch'd and long with firm expectance stood	K
To see a mortal by a god subdued	J
The usual fate of man in hope to find	G2
The cords of Love the beauteous captive bind	G2
With me a willing slave to Cupid's car	H2
The fortunes of the common race to share	O
As one whose secrets in his looks we spy	S
His inmost thoughts discovers in his eye	S
Or in his aspect graved by nature's hand	I2
My gestures ere I spoke enforced my fond demand	I2
Oh link us to your wheels aloud I cried	F2
If your victorious arms the fray decide	F2
Oh bind us closely with your strongest chain	A
I ne'er will seek for liberty again	J2
But oh what fury seem'd his eyes to fill	K2
No bard that ever quaff'd Castalia's rill	K2
Could match his frenzy when his shafts of fire	Y
With magic plumed and barb'd with hot desire	Y
Short of their sacred aim innoxious fell	L2
Extinguish'd by the pure ethereal spell	L2
Camilla or the Amazons in arms	M2
From ancient Thermodon to fierce alarms	M2
Inured or Julius in Pharsalia's field	N2
When his dread onset forced the foe to yield	N2
Came not so boldly on as she to face	O2
The mighty victor of the human race	O2
Who scorns the temper'd mail and buckler's ward	P2
With her the Virtues came an heavenly guard	Q2
A sky descended legion clad in light	M
Of glorious panoply contemning mortal might	M
All weaponless they came but hand in hand	I2
Defied the fury of the adverse band	I2
Honour and maiden Shame were in the ban	R2
Elysian twins beloved by God and man	R2
Her delegates in arms with them combined	G2
Prudence appear'd the daughter of the mind	G2
Pure Temperance next and Steadiness of soul	A2
That ever keeps in view the eternal goal	A2
And Gentleness and soft Address were seen	S2
And Courtesy with mild inviting mien	S2
And Purity and cautious Dread of blame	B2
With ardent love of clear unspotted fame	B2
And sage Discretion seldom seen below	I
Where the full veins with youthful ardour glow	I
Benevolence and Harmony of soul	A2
Were there but rarely found from pole to pole	A2
And there consummate Beauty shone combined	G2
With all the pureness of an angel mind	G2
Such was the host that to the conflict came	B2
Their bosoms kindling with empyreal flame	B2
And sense of heavenly help The beams that broke	C2
From each celestial file with horror struck	T2
The bowyer god who felt the blinding rays	U2
And like a mortal stood in fix'd amaze	U2
While on his spoils the fair assailants flew	U
And plunder'd at their ease the captive crew	U
And some with palmy boughs the way bestrew'd	G2
To show their conquest o'er the baffled god	G2
Sudden as Hannibal on Zama's field	G2
Was forced to Scipio's conquering arms to yield	G2
Sudden as David's hand the giant sped	G2
When Accaron beheld his fall and fled	G2
Sudden as her revenge who gave the word	G2
When her stern guards dispatch'd the Persian lord	G2
Or like a man that feels a strong disease	V2
His shivering members in a moment seize	V2
Such direful throes convulsed the despot's frame	B2
His hands that veil'd his eyes confess'd his shame	B2
And mental pangs more agonising far	H2
In his sick bosom bred a civil war	P
And hate and anguish with insatiate ire	W2
Flash'd in his eyes with momentary fire	Y
Not raging Ocean when its billows boil	X2
Nor Typhon when he lifts the trembling soil	X2
Of Arima his tortured limbs to ease	V2
Nor Etna thundering o'er the subject seas	V2
Surpass'd the fury of the baffled Power	Y
Who stamp'd with rage and bann'd the luckless hour	Y
Scenes yet unsung demand my loftiest lays	U2
But oh the theme transcends a mortal's praise	U2
A sweet but humbler subject may suffice	Y2
To muster in my song her fair allies	Z2
But first her arms and vesture claim my song	A3
Before I chant the fair attendant throng	A3
A robe she wore that seem'd of woven light	G2
The buckler of Minerva fill'd her right	G2
Medusa's bane a column there was drawn	B3
Of jasper bright and o'er the snowy lawn	B3
And round her beauteous neck a chain was slung	C3
Which glittering on her snowy bosom hung	C3
Diamond and topaz there with mingled ray	D3
Return'd in varied hues the beam of day	D3
A treasure of inestimable cost	G2
Too long alas in Lethe's bosom lost	G2
To modern matrons scarcely known by fame	B2
Few were it to be found the prize would claim	B2
With this the vanquish'd god she firmly bound	G2
While I with joy her kind assistance own'd	G2
But oh the feeble Muse attempts in vain	A
To celebrate in song her numerous train	A
Not all the choir of Aganippe's spring	H
The pageant of the sisterhood could sing	H
But some shall live distinguished in my lay	D3
The most illustrious of the long array	D3
The dexter wing the fair Lucretia led	G2
With her who faithful to her nuptial bed	G2
Her suitors scorn'd and these with dauntless hand	G2
The quiver seized and scatter'd on the strand	G2
The pointless arrows and the broken bow	E3
Of Cupid their despoil'd and recreant foe	I
Lovely Virginia with her sire was nigh	S
Paternal love and anger in his eye	S
Beam'd terrible while in his hand he show'd	G2
Aloft the dagger tinged with virgin blood	G2
Which freedom on the maid and Rome at once bestow'd	G2
Then the Teutonic dames a dauntless race	O2
Who rush'd on death to shun a foe's embrace	O2
And Judith chaste and fair but void of dread	G2
Who the hot blood of Holofernes shed	G2
And that fair Greek who chose a watery grave	D
Her threaten'd purity unstain'd to save	D
All these and others to the combat flew	U
And all combined to wreak the vengeance due	U
On him whose haughty hand in days of yore	P
From clime to clime his conquering standard bore	P
Another troop the vestal virgin led	G2
Who bore along from Tyber's oozy bed	G2
His liquid treasure in a sieve to show	I
The falsehood of her base calumnious foe	I
By wondrous proof And there the Sabine queen	S2
With all the matrons of her race was seen	S2
Renown'd in records old and next in fame	B2
Was she who dauntless met the funeral flame	B2
Not wrong'd in Love but to preserve her vows	G
Immaculate to her Sidonian spouse	F
Let others of neas' falsehood tell	L2
How by an unrequited flame she fell	L2
A nobler though a self inflicted doom	F3
Caused by connubial Love dismiss'd her to the tomb	F3
Picarda next I saw who vainly tried	G2
To pass her days on Arno's flowery side	G2
In single purity till force compell'd	G2
The virgin to the marriage bond to yield	G2
The triumph seem'd at last to reach the shore	P
Where lofty Baise hears the Tuscan roar	P
'Twas on a vernal morn it touch'd the land	G2
And 'twixt Mount Barbaro that crowns the strand	G2
And old Avernus once an hallow'd ground	G2
For the Cum an sibyl's cell renown'd	G2
Linterno's sandy bounds it reach'd at last	G2
Great Scipio's favour'd haunt in ages past	G2
Famed Africanus whose victorious blade	G2
The slaughterous deeds of Hannibal repaid	G2
And to his country's heart a bloody passage made	G2
Here in a calm retreat his life he spent	G2
With rural peace and solitude content	G2
And here the flying rumour sped before	P
And magnified the deed from shore to shore	P
The pageant when it reach'd the destined spot	G2
Seem'd to exceed their utmost reach of thought	G2
There all distinguish'd by their deeds of arms	M2
Excell'd the rest in more than mortal charms	M2
Nor he whom oft the steeds of conquest drew	U
Disdained another's triumphs to pursue	U
At the metropolis arrived at last	G2
To fair Sulpicia's temples soon we pass'd	G2
Sacred to Chastity to ward the pest	G2
With which her sensual foes inflame the breast	G2
The patroness of noble dames alone	G3
Then was the fair plebeian Pole unknown	G3
The victress here display'd her martial spoils	H3
And here the laurel hung that crown'd her toils	H3
A guard she stationed on the temple's bound	G2
The Tuscan mark'd with many a glorious wound	G2
Suspicion in the jealous breast to cure	I3
With him a chosen squadron kept the door	P
I heard their names and I remember well	L2
The youthful Greek that by his stepdame fell	L2
And him who kept by Heaven's command in awe	J3
Refused to violate the nuptial law	K3
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BOYD	G2