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Come hither and behold the fruits	A
Vain man of all thy vain pursuits	A
Take wise advice and look behind	B
Bring all past actions to thy mind	B
Here you may see as in a glass	C
How soon all human pleasures pass	C
How will it mortify thy pride	D
To turn the true impartial side	D
How will your eyes contain their tears	E
When all the sad reverse appears	F
This cave within its womb confines	G
The last result of all designs	G
Here lie deposited the spoils	H
Of busy mortals' endless toils	H
Here with an easy search we find	B
The foul corruptions of mankind	B
The wretched purchase here behold	I
Of traitors who their country sold	I
This gulf insatiate imbibes	H
The lawyer's fees the statesman's bribes	H
Here in their proper shape and mien	J
Fraud perjury and guilt are seen	J
Necessity the tyrant's law	K
All human race must hither draw	K
All prompted by the same desire	L
The vigorous youth and aged sire	L
Behold the coward and the brave	M
The haughty prince the humble slave	M
Physician lawyer and divine	N
All make oblations at this shrine	N
Some enter boldly some by stealth	O
And leave behind their fruitless wealth	O
For while the bashful sylvan maid	P
As half ashamed and half afraid	P
Approaching finds it hard to part	Q
With that which dwelt so near her heart	Q
The courtly dame unmoved by fear	R
Profusely pours her offering here	S
A treasure here of learning lurks	H
Huge heaps of never dying works	H
Labours of many an ancient sage	T
And millions of the present age	T
In at this gulf all offerings pass	H
And lie an undistinguish'd mass	H
Deucalion to restore mankind	B
Was bid to throw the stones behind	B
So those who here their gifts convey	U
Are forced to look another way	U
For few a chosen few must know	V
The mysteries that lie below	V
Sad charnel house a dismal dome	W
For which all mortals leave their home	W
The young the beautiful and brave	M
Here buried in one common grave	M
Where each supply of dead renews	H
Unwholesome damps offensive dews	H
And lo the writing on the walls	H
Points out where each new victim falls	H
The food of worms and beasts obscene	J
Who round the vault luxuriant reign	X
See where those mangled corpses lie	Y
Condemn'd by female hands to die	Y
A comely dame once clad in white	Z
Lies there consign'd to endless night	Z
By cruel hands her blood was spilt	A2
And yet her wealth was all her guilt	A2
And here six virgins in a tomb	B2
All beauteous offspring of one womb	B2
Oft in the train of Venus seen	J
As fair and lovely as their queen	J
In royal garments each was drest	A2
Each with a gold and purple vest	A2
I saw them of their garments stript	A2
Their throats were cut their bellies ript	A2
Twice were they buried twice were born	C2
Twice from their sepulchres were torn	C2
But now dismember'd here are cast	A2
And find a resting place at last	A2
Here oft the curious traveller finds	H
The combat of opposing winds	H
And seeks to learn the secret cause	H
Which alien seems from nature's laws	H
Why at this cave's tremendous mouth	D2
He feels at once both north and south	D2
Whether the winds in caverns pent	A2
Through clefts oppugnant force a vent	A2
Or whether opening all his stores	H
Fierce AEolus in tempest roars	H
Yet from this mingled mass of things	H
In time a new creation springs	H
These crude materials once shall rise	H
To fill the earth and air and skies	H
In various forms appear again	E2
Of vegetables brutes and men	E2
So Jove pronounced among the gods	H
Olympus trembling as he nods	H

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