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Hah how the laurel great Apollo's tree	A
And all the cavern shakes Far off far off	B
The man that is unhallow'd for the god	C
The god approaches Hark he knocks the gates	D
Feel the glad impulse and the sever'd bars	E
Submissive clink against their brazen portals	F
Why do the Delian palms incline their boughs	G
Self moved and hovering swans their throats released	H
From native silence carol sounds harmonious	I
Begin young men the hymn let all your harps	J
Break their inglorious silence and the dance	K
In mystic numbers trod explain the music	L
But first by ardent prayer and clear lustration	M
Purge the contagious spots of human weakness	I
Impure no mortal can behold Apollo	N
So may ye flourish favour'd by the god	C
In youth with happy nuptials and in age	O
With silver hairs and fair descent of children	M
So lay foundations for aspiring cities	P
And bless your spreading colonies' increase	Q
Pay sacred reverence to Apollo's song	R
Lest wrathful the far shooting god emit	S
His fatal arrows Silent Nature stands	T
And seas subside obedient to the sound	U
Of I I Pean nor dares Thetis	I
Longer bewail her loved Achilles' death	V
For Phoebus was his foe Nor must sad Niobe	W
In fruitless sorrow persevere or weep	X
E'en through the Phyrgian marble Hapless mother	Y
Whose fondness could compare her mortal offspring	Z
To those which fair Latona bore to Jove	B
I again repeat ye I Pean	M
Against the Deity 'tis hard to strive	B
He that resists the power of Ptolemy	A
Resists the power of heaven for power from heaven	M
Derives and monarchs rule by gods appointed	A2
Recite Apollo's praise till night draws on	M
The ditty still unfinish'd and the day	B2
Unequal to the godhead's attributes	C2
Various and matter copious of your songs	D2
Sublime at Jove's right hand Apollo sits	E2
And thence distributes honour gracious king	Z
And thence of verse perpetual From his robe	W
Flows light ineffable his harp his quiver	Y
And Lictian bow are gold with golden sandals	F
His feet are shod how rich how beautiful	F2
Beneath his steps the yellow mineral rises	G2
And earth reveals her treasures Youth and beauty	A
Eternal deck his cheeks from his fair head	H2
Perfumes distil their sweets and cheerful Health	I2
His duteous handmaid through the air improved	J2
With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial	F2
The spearman's arm by thee great god directed	A2
Sends forth a certain wound The laurell'd bard	K2
Inspired by thee composes verse immortal	F2
Taught by thy art divine the sage physician	M
Eludes the urn and chains or exiles Death	V
Thee Nomian we adore for that from heaven	M
Descending thou on fair Amphyrsus' banks	L2
Didst guard Admetus' herds Sithence the vow	B
Produced an ampler store of milk the she goat	M2
Not without pain dragg'd her distended udder	Y
And ewes that erst brought forth but single lambs	N2
Now dropp'd their twofold burdens Bless'd the cattle	F2
On which Apollo cast his favouring eye	O2
But Phoebus thou to man beneficient	M2
Delight'st in building cities Bright Diana	M
Kind sister to thy infant deity	M2
New wean'd and just arising from the cradle	F2
Brought hunted wild goats' heads and branching antlers	P2
Of stags the fruit and honour of her toil	Q2
These with discerning hand thou knew'st to range	R2
Young as thou wast and in the well framed models	F
With emblematic skill and mystic order	Y
Thou show'dst where towers or battlements should rise	S2
Where gates should open or where walls should compass	I
While from thy childish pastime man received	M2
The future strength and ornament of nations	T2
Battus our great progentior now touch'd	M2
The Libyan strand when the foreboding crow	Y
Flew on the right before the people marking	Z
The country destined the auspicious seat	M2
Of future kings and favour of the god	M2
Whose oath is sure and promise stands eternal	F2
Or Boedromian hear'st thou pleased or Clarian	M
Phoebus great king for different are thy names	U2
As thy kind hand has founded many cities	P
Or dealt benign thy various gifts to man	M
Carnean let me call thee for my country	M2
Calls thee Carnean the fair colony	M2
Thrice by thy gracious guidance was transported	M2
Ere settled in Cyrene there we appointed	M2
Thy annual feasts kind god and bless'd thy altars	P2
Smoking with hecatombs of slaughter'd bulls	V2
As Carnus thy high priest and favour'd friend	M2
Had erst ordain'd and with mysterious rites	W2
Our great forefathers taught their sons to worship	X2
I Carnean Phoebus I Pean	M2
The yellow crocus there and fair narcissus	I
Reserve the honours of their winter store	Y
To deck thy temple till returning spring	Z
Diffuses Nature's various pride and flowers	P2
Innumerable by the soft south west	M2
Open'd and gather'd by religious hands	T
Rebound their sweets from th' odoriferous pavement	M2
Perpetual fires shine hallow'd on thy altars	P2
When annual the Carnean feast is held	M2
The warlike Libyans clad in armour lead	M2
The dance with clanging swords and shields they beat	M2
The dreadful measure in the chorus join	M2
Their women brown but beautiful such rites	W2
To thee well pleasing Nor had yet thy votaries	W2
From Greece transplanted touch'd Cyrene's banks	W2
And lands determined for their last abodes	W2
But wander'd through Azilis' horrid forest	M2
Dispersed when from Myrtusa's craggy brow	Y
Fond of the maid auspicious to the city	M2
Which must hereafter bear her favour'd name	Y2
Thou gracious deign'd'st to let the fair one view	B
Her typic people thou with pleasure taught'st her	Y
To draw the bow to slay the shaggy lion	M2
And stop the spreading ruin of the plains	W2
Happy the nymph who honour'd by thy passion	M2
Was aided by thy power the monstrous Python	M2
Durst tempt thy wrath in vain for dead he fell	Z2
To thy great strength and golden arms unequal	F2
I while thy unerring hand elanced	M2
Another and another dart the people	F2
Joyful repeated I I Pean	M2
Elance the dart Apollo for the safety	M2
And health of man gracious thy mother bore thee	M2
Envy thy latest foe suggested thus	W2
Like thee I am a power immortal therefore	Y
To thee dare speak How canst thou favour partial	F2
Those poets who write little vast and great	M2
Is what I love the far extended ocean	M2
To a small rivulet I prefer Apollo	Y
Spurn'd Envy with his foot and thus the god	M2
Daemon the headlong current of Euphrates	W2
Assyrian river copious runs but muddy	M2
And carries forward with his stupid force	W2
Polluting dirt his torrent still augmenting	Z
His wave still more defiled meanwhile the nymphs	W2
Melissan sacred and recluse to Ceres	W2
Studious to have their offerings well received	M2
And fit for heavenly use from little urns	W2
Pour streams select and purity of waters	W2
I Apollo mighty king let Envy	M2
Ill judging and verbose from Lethe's lake	A3
Draw tons unmeasurable while thy favour	Y
Administers to my ambitious thirst	M2
The wholesome draught from Aganippe's spring	Z
Genuine and with soft murmurs gently rilling	Z
Adown the mountains where thy daughters haunt	M2

Matthew Prior

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