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A robe obscene was o er her shoulders thrown	A
A dress by fates and furies worn alone us	B
She tossed her meagre arms her better hand	C
In waving circles whirled a fun ral brand	C
A serpent from her left was seen to rear	D
His flaming crest and lash the yielding air	E
But when the fury took her stand on high too	F
Where vast Oitheron s top salutes the sky	G
A hiss from all the snaky tire went round	H
The dreadful signal all the rocks rebound	H
And through th Aobaian cities send the sound	H
te with high Parnassus heard the voice	I
Eurotas banks remurmured to the noise	J
Again Leucothea shook at these alarms	K
And pressed Pal mon closer in her arms	K
Headlong from thence the glowing fury springs	L
And o er the Theban palace spreads her wings	L
Once more invades the guilty dome and shrouds	M
Its bright pavilions in a veil of clouds	M
Straight with the rage of all their race possessed	N
Stung to the soul the brothers start from rest	N
And all their furies wake within their breast	N
Their tortured minds repining envy tears	O
And hate engendered by suspicious fears	P
And sacred thirst of sway and all the ties	Q
Of nature broke and royal perjuries	Q
And impotent desire to reign alone	A
That scorns the dull reversion of a throne	A
Each would the sweets of sov reign rule devour	R
While discord waits upon divided power	R
As stubborn steers by brawny plowmen broke	S
And joined reluctant to the galling yoke	S
Alike disdain with servile necks to bear	E
Th unwonted weight or drag the crooked share	E
But rend the reins and bound a diff rent way	T
And all the furrows in confusion lay	T
Such was the discord of the royal pair	E
Whom fury drove precipitate to war	U
In vain the chiefs contrived a specious way	T
To govern Thebes by their alternate sway	T
Unjust decree while this enjoys the state	V
That mourns in exile his unequal fate	V
And the short monarch of a hasty year	D
Foresees with anguish his returning heir	E
Thus did the league their impious arms restrain	W
But scarce subsisted to the second reign	W
Yet then no proud aspiring piles were raised	X
No fretted roofs with polished metals blazed	X
No laboured columns in long order placed	Y
No Grecian stone the pompous arches graced	Y
No nightly bands in glitt ring armour wait	V
Before the sleepless tyrant s guarded gate	V
No chargers then were wrought in burnished gold	Z
Nor silver vases took the forming mold	Z
Nor gems on bowls embossed were seen to shine	A2
Blaze on the brims and sparkle in the wine	A2
Say wretched rivals what provokes your rage	B2
Say to what end your impious arms engage	B2
Not all bright Ph bus views in early morn	C2
Or when his ev ning beams the west adorn	C2
When the south glows with his meridian ray	T
And the cold north receives a fainter day	T
For crimes like these not all those realms suffice	Q
Were all those realms the guilty victor s prize	Q
But fortune now the lots of empire thrown	A
Decrees to proud Eteocles the crown	D2
What joys oh tyrant swelled thy soul that day	T
When all were slaves thou couldst around survey	T
Pleased to behold unbounded power thy own	A
And singly fill a feared and envied throne	A
But the vile vulgar ever discontent	E2
Their growing fears in secret murmurs vent	E2
Still prone to change though still the slaves of state	V
And sure the monarch whom they have to hate	V
New lords they madly make then tamely bear	E
And softly curse tile tyrants whom they fear	D
And one of those who groan beneath the sway	T
Of kings imposed and grudgingly obey	T
Whom envy to the great and vulgar spite	F2
With scandal armed th ignoble mind s delight	F2
Exclaimed O Thebes for thee what fates remain	W
What woes attend this inauspicious reign	W
Must we alas our doubtful necks prepare	E
Each haughty master s yoke by turns to bear	E
And still to change whom changed we still must fear	D
These now control a wretched people s fate	V
These can divide and these reverse the state	V
Ev n fortune rules no more O servile land	C
Where exiled tyrants still by turns command	C
Thou sire of gods and men imperial Jove	T
Is this th eternal doom decreed above	T
On thy own offspring hast thou fixed this fate	V
From the first birth of our unhappy state	V
When banished Cadmus wand ring o er the main	W
For lost Europa searched the world in vain	W
And fated in B otian fields to found	H
A rising empire on a foreign ground	H
First raised our walls on that ill omened plain	W
Where earth born brothers were by brothers slain	W
What lofty looks th unrivalled monarch bears	Q
How all the tyrant in his face appears	Q
What sullen fury clouds his scornful brow	G2
Gods how his eyes with threat ning ardour glow	H2
Can this imperious lord forget to reign	W
Quit all his state descend and serve again	I2
Yet who before mere popularly bowed	J2
Who more propitious to the suppliant crowd	J2
Patient of right familiar in the throne	A
What wonder then he was not then alone	A
O wretched we a vile submissive train	W
Fortune s tame fools and slaves in ev ry reign	W
As when two winds with rival force contend	K2
This way and that the wav ring sails they bend	K2
While freezing Boreas and black Eurus blow	H2
Now here now there tho reeling vessel throw	H2
Thus on each side alas our tott ring state	V
Feels all the fury of resistless fate	V
And doubtful still and still distracted stands	Q
While that prince threatens and while this commands	Q
And now th almighty father of the gods	Q
Convenes a council in the blest abodes	Q
Far in the bright recesses of the skies	Q
high o er the rolling heav ns a mansion lies	Q
Whence far below the gods at once survey	T
The realms of rising and declining day	T
And all lii extended space of earth and air and sea	Q
Full in the midst and on a starry throne	A
The majesty of heav n superior shone	A
Serene he looked and gave an awful nod	L2
And all the trembling spheres confessed the god	L2
At Jove s assent the deities around	H
In solemn state the consistory crowned	H
Next a long order of inferior pow rs	Q
Ascend from hills and plains and shady bow rs	Q
Those from whose urns the rolling rivers flow	H2
And those that give the wand ring winds to blow	H2
Here all their rage and ev n their murmurs cease	Q
And sacred silence reigns and universal peace	Q
A shining synod of majestic gods	Q
Gilds with new lustre the divine abodes	Q
Heav n seems improved with a superior ray	T
And the bright arch reflects a double day	T
The monarch then his solemn silence broke	S
The still creation listened while he spoke	S
Each sacred accent bears eternal weight	V
And each irrevocable word is fate	V
How long shall man the wrath of heav n defy	T
And force unwilling vengeance from the sky	T

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