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While we to Jove select the holy victim	A
Whom apter shall we sing than Jove himself	B
The god for ever great for ever king	C
Who slew the earthborn race and measures right	D
To heaven's great 'habitants Dictaean hear'st thou	E
More joyful or Lycaean long dispute	F
And various thought has traced On Ida's mount	G
Or Dictae studious of his country's praise	H
The Cretan boasts thy natal place but oft	I
He meets reproof deserved for he presumptuous	J
Has built a tomb for thee who never know'st	K
To die but liv'st the same to day and ever	L
Arcadian therefore be thy birth great Rhea	M
Pregnant to high Parrhasia's cliffs retired	N
And wild Lycaeus black with shading pines	O
Holy retreat sithence no female hither	L
Conscious of social love and Nature's rites	P
Must dare approach from the inferior reptile	Q
To woman form divine There the bless'd parent	R
Ungirt her spacious bosom and discharged	S
The ponderous birth she sought a neighbouring spring	C
To wash the recent babe in vain Arcadia	M
However streamy now adust and dry	T
Denied the goddess water where deep Melas	P
And rocky Cratis flow the chariot smoked	U
Obscure with rising dust the thirsty traveller	L
In vain required the current then imprison'd	V
In subterranean caverns forests grew	W
Upon the barren hollows high o'ershading	C
The haunts of savage beasts where now Iaon	X
And Erimanth incline their friendly urns	P
Thou too O Earth great Rhea said bring forth	Y
And short shall be thy pangs She said and high	T
She rear'd her arm and with her sceptre struck	C
The yawning cliff from its disparted height	D
Adown the mount the gushing torrent ran	X
And cheer'd the valleys there the heavenly mother	L
Bathed mighty King thy tender limbs she wrapp'd them	Z
In purple bands she gave the precious pledge	A2
To prudent Neda charging her to guard thee	B2
Careful and secret Neda of the nymphs	P
That tended the great birth next Philyre	L
And Styx the eldest Smiling she received the	M
And conscious of the grace absolved her trust	C2
Not unrewarded since the river bore	L
The favourite virgin's name fair Neda rolls	P
By Lepricon's ancient walls a fruitful stream	D2
Fast by her flowery bank the sons of Arcas	P
Favourites of Heaven with happy care protect	E2
Their fleecy charge and joyous drink her wave	F2
Thee god to Gnossus Neda brought the Nymphs	P
And Corybantes thee their sacred charge	G2
Received Adraste rock'd thy golden cradle	H2
The Goat now bright amidst her fellow stars	P
Kind Amalthea reach'd her teat distent	E2
With milk thy early food the sedulous bee	B2
Distill'd her honey on thy purple lips	P
Around the fierce Curetes order solemn	X
To thy foreknowing mother trod tumultuous	P
Their mystic dance and clang'd their sounding arms	P
Industrious with the warlike din to quell	I2
Thy infant cries and mock the ear of Saturn	X
Swift growth and wondrous grace O heavenly Jove	F2
Waited thy blooming years inventive wit	E2
And perfect judgment crown'd thy youthful act	E2
That Saturn's sons received the threefold empire	L
Of heaven of ocean and deep hell beneath	J2
As the dark urn and chance of lot determined	E2
Old poets mention fabling Things of moment	E2
Well nigh equivalent and neighbouring value	W
By lot are parted but high heaven thy share	L
In equal balance laid 'gainst sea or hell	I2
Flings up the adverse scale and shuns proportion	X
Wherefore not Chance but power above thy brethren	X
Exalted thee their king When thy great will	K2
Commands thy chariot forth impetuous strength	L2
And fiery swiftness wing the rapid wheels	P
Incessant high the eagle flies before thee	B2
And oh as I and mine consult thy augur	L
Grant the glad omen let thy favourite rise	P
Propitious ever soaring from the right	E2
Thou to the lesser gods hast well assign'd	E2
Their proper shares of power thy own great Jove	F2
Boundless and universal Those who labour	L
The sweaty forge who edge the crooked scythe	M2
Bend stubborn steel and harden gleaming armour	L
Acknowledge Vulcan's aid The early hunter	L
Blesses Diana's hand who leads him safe	F2
O'er hanging cliffs who spreads his net successful	H2
And guides the arrow through the panther's heart	E2
The soldier from successful camps returning	C
With laurel wreath'd and rich with hostile spoil	N2
Severs the bull to Mars The skilful bard	E2
Striking the Thracian harp invokes Apollo	O2
To make his hero and himself immortal	H2
Those mighty Jove meantime thy glorious care	L
Who model nations publish laws announce	P
Or life or death and found or change the empire	L
Man owns the power of kings and kings of Jove	F2
And as their actions tend subordinate	E2
To what thy will designs thou gav'st the means	P
Proportion'd to the work these only have	F2
To speak and be obey'd to those are given	X
To some whole months revolving years to some	X
Others ill fated are condemn'd to toil	N2
Their tedious life and mourn their purpose blasted	E2
With fruitless act and impotence of counsel	H2
Hail greatest son of Saturn wise disposer	L
Of every good thy praise what man yet born	X
Has sung or who that may be born shall sing	C
Again and often hail indulge our prayer	L
Great Father grant us virtue grant us wealth	P2
For without virtue wealth to man avails not	E2
And virtue without wealth exerts less power	L
And less diffuses good Then grant us Gracious	P
Virtue and wealth for both are of thy gift	E2

Matthew Prior

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