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THENCE in his saffron robe for distant Thrace	A
Hymen departs thro' air's unmeasur'd space	A
By Orpheus call'd the nuptial Pow'r attends	A
But with ill omen'd augury descends	A
Nor chearful look'd the God nor prosp'rous spoke	B
Nor blaz'd his torch but wept in hissing smoke	B
In vain they whirl it round in vain they shake	C
No rapid motion can its flames awake	C
The Story of With dread these inauspicious signs were view'd	D
Orpheus And soon a more disastrous end ensu'd	D
and Eurydice For as the bride amid the Naiad train	E
Ran joyful sporting o'er the flow'ry plain	E
A venom'd viper bit her as she pass'd	F
Instant she fell and sudden breath'd her last	F
When long his loss the Thracian had deplor'd	G
Not by superior Pow'rs to be restor'd	G
Inflam'd by love and urg'd by deep despair	H
He leaves the realms of light and upper air	H
Daring to tread the dark Tenarian road	I
And tempt the shades in their obscure abode	I
Thro' gliding spectres of th' interr'd to go	J
And phantom people of the world below	J
Persephone he seeks and him who reigns	A
O'er ghosts and Hell's uncomfortable plains	A
Arriv'd he tuning to his voice his strings	A
Thus to the king and queen of shadows sings	A
Ye Pow'rs who under Earth your realms extend	K
To whom all mortals must one day descend	K
If here 'tis granted sacred truth to tell	L
I come not curious to explore your Hell	L
Nor come to boast by vain ambition fir'd	M
How Cerberus at my approach retir'd	N
My wife alone I seek for her lov'd sake	C
These terrors I support this journey take	C
She luckless wandring or by fate mis led	O
Chanc'd on a lurking viper's crest to tread	O
The vengeful beast enflam'd with fury starts	A
And thro' her heel his deathful venom darts	A
Thus was she snatch'd untimely to her tomb	P
Her growing years cut short and springing bloom	P
Long I my loss endeavour'd to sustain	E
And strongly strove but strove alas in vain	E
At length I yielded won by mighty love	Q
Well known is that omnipotence above	Q
But here I doubt his unfelt influence fails	A
And yet a hope within my heart prevails	A
That here ev'n here he has been known of old	R
At least if truth be by tradition told	R
If fame of former rapes belief may find	S
You both by love and love alone were join'd	T
Now by the horrors which these realms surround	U
By the vast chaos of these depths profound	U
By the sad silence which eternal reigns	A
O'er all the waste of these wide stretching plains	A
Let me again Eurydice receive	V
Let Fate her quick spun thread of life re weave	V
All our possessions are but loans from you	W
And soon or late you must be paid your due	W
Hither we haste to human kind's last seat	X
Your endless empire and our sure retreat	X
She too when ripen'd years she shall attain	E
Must of avoidless right be yours again	Y
I but the transient use of that require	Z
Which soon too soon I must resign entire	Z
But if the destinies refuse my vow	A2
And no remission of her doom allow	A2
Know I'm determin'd to return no more	B2
So both retain or both to life restore	B2
Thus while the bard melodiously complains	A
And to his lyre accords his vocal strains	A
The very bloodless shades attention keep	C2
And silent seem compassionate to weep	C2
Ev'n Tantalus his flood unthirsty views	A
Nor flies the stream nor he the stream pursues	A
Ixion's wond'ring wheel its whirl suspends	A
And the voracious vulture charm'd attends	A
No more the Belides their toil bemoan	D2
And Sisiphus reclin'd sits list'ning on his stone	D2
Then first 'tis said by sacred verse subdu'd	D
The Furies felt their cheeks with tears bedew'd	D
Nor could the rigid king or queen of Hell	L
Th' impulse of pity in their hearts repell	L
Now from a troop of shades that last arriv'd	D
Eurydice was call'd and stood reviv'd	D
Slow she advanc'd and halting seem to feel	L
The fatal wound yet painful in her heel	L
Thus he obtains the suit so much desir'd	D
On strict observance of the terms requir'd	D
For if before he reach the realms of air	H
He backward cast his eyes to view the fair	H
The forfeit grant that instant void is made	D
And she for ever left a lifeless shade	D
Now thro' the noiseless throng their way they	E2
bend	D
And both with pain the rugged road ascend	D
Dark was the path and difficult and steep	C2
And thick with vapours from the smoaky deep	C2
They well nigh now had pass'd the bounds of night	D
And just approach'd the margin of the light	D
When he mistrusting lest her steps might stray	E2
And gladsome of the glympse of dawning day	E2
His longing eyes impatient backward cast	D
To catch a lover's look but look'd his last	D
For instant dying she again descends	A
While he to empty air his arms extends	A
Again she dy'd nor yet her lord reprov'd	D
What could she say but that too well he lov'd	D
One last farewell she spoke which scarce he heard	D
So soon she drop'd so sudden disappear'd	D
All stunn'd he stood when thus his wife he	F2
view'd	D
By second Fate and double death subdu'd	D
Not more amazement by that wretch was shown	D2
Whom Cerberus beholding turn'd to stone	D2
Nor Olenus cou'd more astonish'd look	G2
When on himself Lethaea's fault he took	G2
His beauteous wife who too secure had dar'd	D
Her face to vye with Goddesses compar'd	D
Once join'd by love they stand united still	L
Turn'd to contiguous rocks on Ida's hill	L
Now to repass the Styx in vain he tries	A
Charon averse his pressing suit denies	A
Sev'n days entire along th' infernal shores	A
Disconsolate the bard Eurydice deplores	A
Defil'd with filth his robe with tears his cheeks	A
No sustenance but grief and cares he seeks	A
Of rigid	D

Ovid

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