(So Pallas order'd, Pallas to their eyes
The mist objected, and condens'd the skies,
The chief with wonder fees th' extended streets, 55
The fpreading harbours, and the rifing fleets;
He next their princefs lofty domes admires,
In feparate islands crown'd with rising spires;
And deep intrenchments and high walls of stone,
That gird the city like a marble zone.
At length the kingly palace-gates he view'd :
There ftopp'd the Goddefs, and her fpeech re-
Two rows of ftately dogs on either hand,
In fculptur'd gold and labour'd filver stand.
These Vulcan form'd with art divine, to wait 120
Immortal guardians at Alcinous' gate;
Alive each animated frame appears,
And ftill to live beyond the power of years.
Fair thrones within from space to space were rais'd,
Where various carpets with embroidery blaz'd, 125
The work of matrons: thefe the princess preft,
Day following day, a long continued feaft.
Refulgent pedeftals the walls furround,
Which boys of gold with flaming torches crown'd;
The polifh'd ore, reflecting every ray,
Blaz'd on the banquets with a double day.
Full fifty hand aaids form the household train;
Some turn the mill, or fift the golden grain :
Some ply the loom : their bufy fingers move
Like poplar leaves when Zephyr fans the grove.
Not more renown'd the men of Scheria's ifle,
For failing arts and all the naval toil,
Than works of female fkill their women's pride,
The flying fhuttle through the threads to guide:
Pallas to thefe her double gifts imparts,
75 Inventive genius, and induftrious arts.
My talk is done; the manfion you inquire
Appears before you enter, and admire.
High thron'd, and feafting there thou shalt behold
The fceptred rulers. Fear not, but be bold;
A decent boldness ever meets with friends,
Succeeds, and ev'n a franger recommends,
First to the queen prefer a fuppliant's claim,
Alcinous queen, Arete is her name,
The fame her parents, and her power the fame.
For know, from Ocean's God Naufithous fprung,
And Peribra, beautiful and young
(Eurymedon's laft hope, who rul'd of old
The race of giants, impious, proud, and bold;
Perish'd the nation in unrighteous war,
Perish'd the prince, and left his only heir),
Who now, by Neptune's amorous power compreft.
Produc'd a monarch that his people bleft,
Father and prince of the Phæacian name;
From him Rhexenor and Alcinous came.
The first by Phœbus' burning arrows fir'd,
New from his nuptials, hapless youth! expir'd.
No fon furviv'd: Arete heir'd his ftate,
And her, Alcinous chofe his royal mate.
With honours yet to womenkind unknown,
This queen he graces, and divides the throne:
In equal tendernefs her fons conspire,
And all the children emulate their fire.
When through the streets fhe gracious deigns to
(The public wonder and the public love)
The tongues of all with tranfport found her praife
The eyes of all, as on a Goddess, gaze.
She feels the triumph of a generous breast ;
To heal divifions, to relieve th' opprest;
In virtue rich; in bleffing others, bleft.
Go then fecure, they humble fuit prefer,
And owe thy country and thy friends to her.
Clofe to the gates a fpacious garden lies,
From ftorms defending and inclement skies.
Four acres was the allotted space of ground,
Fenc'd with a green enclosure all around,
Tall thriving trees confefs'd the fruitful mould;
The reddening apple ripens here to gold.
Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows,
With deeper red the full pomegranate glows,
The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear,
And verdant olives flourish round the year.
The balmy fpirit of the western gale
Eternal breathes on fruits untaught to fail :
Each dropping pear a following pear supplies,
On apples apples, figs on figs arife:
The fame mild feafon gives the blooms to blow,
The buds to harden, and the fruits to grow.
Here order'd vines in equal ranks appear,
With all th' united labours of the year;
Some to unload the fertile branches run,
Some dry the blackening clusters in the fun,
95 Others to tread the liquid harvest join,
The groaning preffes foam with floods of wine.
Here are the vines in early flower defcry'd,
Here grapes difcolour'd on the funny fide, 165
And there in autumn's richest purple dy'd.
With that the Goddefs deign'd no longer flay,
But o'er the world of waters wing'd her way: ico
Forfaking Scheria's ever-pleasing shore,
The winds to Marathon the virgin bore,
Thence, where proud Athens rears her towery
With opening freets and shining structures fpread,
She paft, delighted with the well-known feats; 105
And to Erecheus' facred dome retreats.
Mean while Ulyffes at the palace waits,
There ftops, and anxious with his foul debates,
Fix'd in amaze before the royal gates.
The front appear'd with radiant fplendors gay, 110
Bright as the lamp of night, or orb of day,
The walls were maffy orafs; the cornice high
Blue metals crown'd, in colours of the iky:
Rich plates of gold the folding doors incafe;
The pillars filver, on a brazen bafe ;
Silver the lintels deep projecting o'er,
And gold, the ringlets that command the door.
Beds of all various herbs, for ever green,
In beauteous order terminate the fcene.
Two plenteous fountains the whole profpect
crown'd;
'This through the garden leads its ftreams around, (
Vifits each plant, and waters all the ground :
While that in pipes beneath the palace flows,
And thence its current on the town beftows;
To various ufe their various ftreams they bring,
175
The people one, and one fupplies the king.
Such were the glories which the Gods ordain'd,
To grace Alcinous, and his happy land.
Ev'n from the chief who men and nations knew,
Th' unwonted fcene furprife and rapture drew;
In pleafing thought he ran the prospect o'er
Then hafty enter'd at the lofty door.
Night now approaching, in the palace stand,
With goblets crown'd, the rulers of the land;
Prepar'd for reft, and offering to the God
Who bears the virtue of the fleepy rod.
Unfeen he glided through the joyous crowd,
With darkness circled, and an ambient cloud.
Direct to great Alcinous' throne he came,
And proftrate fell before th' imperial dame.
But with the rifing day, affembled here, 185 Let all the elders of the land appear,
Pious obferve our hofpitable laws,
And Heaven propitiate in the ftranger's cause :
Then, join'd in council, proper means explore
Safe to transport him to the wifh'd-for fhore 255
Then from around him dropt the veil of night; 190 (How diftant that, imports not us to know,
Sudden he fhines, and manifeft to fight,
The nobles gaze, with awful fear oppreft;
Silent they gaze, and eye the godlike guest.
Daughter of great Rhexenor! (thus began
Low at her knees the much enduring man)
To thee, thy confort, and this royal train,
To all that share the bleffings of your reign,
A fuppliant bends: Oh, pity human woe!
'Tis what the happy to th' unhappy owe.
A wretched exile to his country send,
Long worn with griefs, and long without a friend.
So may the Gods your better days increase,
And all your joys defcend on all your race,
So reign for ever on your country's breast,
Your people blefling, by your people bleft!
Then to the genial hearth he bow'd his face,
And humbled in the afhes took his place.
Silence enfued. The eldeft firft began,
Echenus fage, a venerable man!
Whofe well-taught mind the prefent age surpast,
And join'd to that th' experience of the last.
Fit words attended on his weighty sense,
And mild perfuafion flow'd in eloquence.
O fight (he cry'd) dishonest and unjust!
A gueft, a ftranger, feated in the duft!
To raife the lowly fuppliant from the ground
Befite a monarch. Lo! the peers around
But wait thy word, the gentle guest to grace,
And feat him fair in fome distinguish'd place.
Let first the herald due libation pay
To Jove, who guides the wanderer on his way:
Then fet the genial banquet in his view,
And give the franger guest a firanger's due.
His fage advice the liftening king obeys,
He stretch'd his hand the prudent chief to raife,
And from his feat Laodamas remov'd
The monarch's offspring, and his belt belov'd);
There next his fide the godlike hero fate;
With ftars of filver fhone the bed of fate.
The golden ewer a beauteous handmaid brings, 230
Replenish'd from the cool translucent fprings,
Whofe polish'd vafe with copious ftreams fupplies
A filver laver of capacious fize,
The table next in regal order fpread,
Nor weigh the labour but relieve the woe).
Mean time, nor harm nor anguifh let him bear :
This interval, Heaven trufls him to our care;
But to his native land our charge refign'd, 260 [hind.
Heaven 's his life to come, and all the woes be-
Then must he fuffer what the Fates ordain ;
For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are mifery and (
man!
But if, defcended from th' Olympian bower, 265
Gracious approach us fome immortal power;
If in that form thou con'ft a guest divine:
Some high event the confcious Gods defign.
As yet, unbid they never grac'd our feast,
The folemn facrifice call'd down the gueft;
Then manifeft of heaven the vision stood,
And to our eyes familiar was the God.
Oft with fome favour'd traveller,they firay,
And fhine before him all the defert way:
With focial intercourse, and face to face,
The friends and guardians of our pious race.
So near approach we their celestial kind,
By justice, truth, and probity of mind:
As our dire neighbours of Cyclopean birth
Match in fierce wrong the Giant-fons of earth. 28.
Let no fuch thought (with modeft grace re-
join'd
The prudent Greek) poffefs the royal mind,
Alas! a mortal, like thyself, am I;
With Heaven's high will prepar'd to suffer more.
What hiftories of toil could I declare!
But ftill long-wearied nature wants repair;
Spent with fatigue, and fhrunk with pining faft, 295
My craving bowels till require repaît.
Howe'er the noble, fuffering mind, may grieve
The glittering canifters are heap'd with bread: 235 Its load of anguish, and difdain to live;
Viands of various kinds invite the taste,
Of choiceft fort and favour, rich repaft!
Thus feafting high, Alcinous gave the fign,
And bade the herald pour the rofy wine.
Let all around the due libation pay
To Jove, who guides the wanderer on his
He faid. Pontonous heard the king's command:
The circling goblet moves from hand to hend:
Earth drinks the juice that glads the heart of man,
Alcinous then, with aspect mild, began;
Princes and peers, attend; while we impart
To you, the thoughts of no inhuman heart.
Now pleas'd and fatiate from the focial rite
Repair we to the blessings of the night :
+ Mercury.
Neceflity demands our daily bread ;
Hunger is infolent, and will be fed.
But finish, oh ye peers! what you propose,
And let the morrow's dawn conclude my woes.
Pleas'd will I fuffer all the Gods ordain,
To fee my foil, my fon, my friends, again.
That view vouchfaf'd, let inftant death surprise 305
With ever-during fhade these happy eyes!
Th' affembled peers with general praise ap-
His pleaded reafon, and the fuit he mov'd. [prov'd
Each drinks a full oblivion of his cares,
And to the gift of balmy flcep repairs.
Ulyffes in the regal wails alone
Remain'd befide him, on a splendid throne
Divine Arete and Alcinous
And robes like thefe, fo recent and fo fair?
Hard is the task, oh princefs! you impose:
(Thus fighing fpoke the man of many woes)
The long, the mournful feries to relate
Of all my forrows fent by Heaven and Fate!
Yet what you afk, attend. An island lies
Beyond thefe tracts, and under other skics,
Ogygia nam'd, in Ocean's watery arms;
Where dwells Calypfo, dreadful in her charms!
Remote from Gods or men fhe holds her reign, 330
Amid the terrors of the rolling main:
Me, only me, the hand of fortane bore
Unbleft to tread that interdicted shore :
When Jove tremendous in tic fable deeps
Launch'd his red lightning at our featter'd fhips;
followers loft,
Then, all my fleet, and all
Sole on a plank, on boiling furges toft,
Who from fuch youth could hope confiderate care
In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
She gave me life, reliev'd with just supplies
My wants, and lent these robes that strike your
This is the truth: and oh, ye Powers on high!
Forbid that want should fink me to a lie,
To this the king: Our daughter l'ut expreft
385
Her cares imperfect to our godlike gueft.
Suppliant to her, fince firft he chose to pray,
Why not herself did the conduct the way,
And with her handmaids to our court convey?
Hero and king! (Ulyffes thus reply'd)
Nor blame her faultlefs, nor fufpe&t her pride: 390
She hade me follow in th' attendant train;
But fear and reverence did my steps detain,
Left rafh fufpicion might alarm thy mind:
Man's of a jealous and mistaking kind.
Far from my foul (he cry'd) the Gods efface 395
All wrath ill-grounded, and fufpicion base!
Whate'er is honeft, ftranger, I approve;
And would to Phoebus, Pallas, and to Jove,
Such as thou art, thy thought and mine were
Nor thou unwilling to be call'd my fon.
Heaven drove my wreck th' Ogygian ifle to In fuch alliance could'ft thou wish to join,
A palace ftor'd with treafures fhould be thine.
But, if reluctant, who fhail force thy stay!
Jove bids to fet the ftranger on his way,
And fhips fhall wait thee with the morning ray.
Till then, let flumber close their careful eyes;
The wakeful mariners fhall watch the fkies,
And feize the moment when the breezes rife ;
345 Then gently waft thee to the pleasing shore,
Where thy foul refts, and labour is no more.
Far as Euboea though thy country lay,
Our fhips with eafe tranfport thee in a day.
Thither of old, earth's || giant-fon to view,
On wings of winds with Rhadamanth they flew :
350This land, from whence their morning courfe
Full nine days floating to the wave and wind.
340
Met by the Goddess there with open arms,
She brib'd my stay with more than human charms;
Nay promis'd, vainly promis'd, to bestow
Immortal life, exempt from age and woe:
But all her blandifhments fuccefslefs prove,
To banish from my breaft my country's love.
I ftay reluctant feven continued years,
Aud water her ambrofial couch with tears.
The eighth the voluntary moves to part,
Or urg'd by Jove, or her own changeful heart:
A raft was form'd, to cross the furging fea;
Herself fupply'd the ftores and rich array,
And gave the gales to waft me or the way.
In feventeen days appear'd your pleafing coat,
And woody mountains half in vapours loft.
Joy touch'd my foul; my foul was joy'd in vain, 355
For angry Neptune rous'd the raging main;
The wild winds whiftle, and the billows roar ;
The splitting raft the furious tempeft tore`;
And ftorms vindictive intercept the fhore.
Soon as their rage fubfides, the feas i brave
With naked force, and shoot along the wave,
To reach this ifle: but there my hopes
loft,
The furge impell'd me on a craggy coaft.
I chose the faser sea, and chane'd to find
A river's mouth impervious to the wind,
And clear of rocks. I fainted by the fload;
Then took the shelter of the neighbouring wood.
'Twas night; and, cover'd in the foliage deep,
Jove plung'd my fenfes in the death of fleep.
All night I flept, oblivious of my pain :
Aurora dawn'd and Phœbus fhin'd in vain,
Nor, till oblique he flop'd his evening ray,
Hi Somnus dry'd the balmy dews away.
Then female voices from the fhore I heard:
A maid amidst them, goddess-like, appear'd:
To her I fued, the pity'd my diftrels;
Like thee in beauty, nor in virtue lefs,
Saw them returning with the fetting fun.
Your eyes fhall witnefs and confirm my tale,
Our youth how dextrous, and how fleet our fail.
When justly tim'd with equal fweep they row,
And ocean whitens in long tracts below.
Thus he. No word th' experienc'd man re-
plies,
But thus to heaven (and heavenward lifts his eyes)
O, Jove! O, father! what the king accords
Do thou make perfect! facred be his words!
Wide o'er the world Alcinous' glory fhine!
Let fame be his, and ah! my country mine!
Mean time Arete, for the hour of reft,
Ordains the fleecy couch and covering veft;
Bids her fair train the purple quilts prepare,
And the thick carpets fpread with bufy care.
With torches blazingi n their hands they past,
And finish'd all the queen's command with hafte :
Then gave the fignal to the willing gueft:
He rofe with pleasure, and retir'd to rest.
There, foft-extended, to the murmuring found 435
Of the high porch, Ulyffes fleeps profound!
Within, releas'd from cares Alcinous lies,
375 And faft befide were clos'd Arete's eyes.”
Alcinous calls a council, in which it is refolved to transport Ulysses into bis country. After which, fplendid entertainments are made, where the celebrated musician and poet Demodocus plays and fings to the guests. They next proceed to the games; the race, the wrestling, difcus, &c.; where Ulyffes cafts a prodigious length, to the admiration of all the spectators. They return again to the banquet, and Demodocus fings the loves of Mars and Venus. Ulyffes, after a compliment to the poet, defires bim to fing the introduction of the wooden borse into Troy; which subject provoking his tears, Alcinous inquires of his gueft, bis name, parentage, and fortunes.
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And all the ruddy orient flames with day: Alcinous, and the chief, with dawning light, Rofe instant from the flumbers of the night; Then to the council-feat they bend their way, And fill the shining thrones along the bay.
Mean while Minerva in her guardian care, Shoots from the ftarry vault through fields of air; In form a herald of the king, fhe flies From peer to peer, and thus inceffant cries:
Now all acceffes to the dome are fill'd;
Eight boars, the choiceft of the herd, are kill'd :
Two beeves, twelve fatlings, from the flock they
bring
5 To crown the feaft; fo wills the bounteous king.
The herald now arrives, and guides along
The facred mafter of celestial fong;
Nobles and chiefs who rule Phæacia's ftates, The king in council your attendance waits : A Prince of Grace Divine your aid implores, O'er unknown feas arriv'd from unknown fhores. She spoke and fudden with tumultuous founds 15 Of thronging multitudes the shores rebounds: At once the feats they fill and every eye Gaz'd, as before fome brother of the sky. Pallas with grace divine his form improves, More high he treads, and more enlarg'd he moves; She sheds celestial bloom, regard to draw ; And gives a dignity of mien, to awe With ftrength, the future prize of Fame to play, And gather all the honours of the day.
Then from his glittering throne Alcinous rofe: Attend, he cry'd, while we our will disclose. Your prefent aid this godlike ftranger' craves, Toft by rude tempeft through a war of waves; Perhaps from realms that view the rifing day, Or nations fubject to the western ray.' Then grant, what here all fons of woe obtain, (For here affliction never pleads in vain :) Be chofen youths prepar'd, expert to try The vail profound, and bid the veffel fly: Launch the tall bark, and order every oar; "Then in our court indulge the genial hour. Inftant, you failors, to this task attend; Swift to the palace, all ye peers afcend: Let none to strangers honours due difclaim: Be there Demodocus, the Bard of Fame, Taught by the Gods to please, when high he fings" The vocal lay. refponfive to the frings.
Dear to the Mufe! who gave his days to flow
With mighty bleflings, mix'd with mighty woe:
With clouds of darknefs quench'd his visual ray,
But gave him kill to raife the lofty lay.
High on a radiant throne fublime in ftate,
Encircled by huge multitudes, he fate :
With filver fhone the throne; his lyre well ftrung
To rapturous founds, at hand Pontonous hung:
Before his feat a polifh'd table fhines,
65
And a full goblet foams with generous wines :
His food a herald bore; and now they fed:
And now the rage of craving hunger fled.
Then, fir'd by all the Mufe, aloud he fings
The mighty deeds of Demi-gods and Kings:
From that fierce wrath the noble fong arofe,
That made Ulyffes and Achilles foes:
How o'er the feaft they doom the fall of Truy;
The ftern debate Atrides hears with joy:
For Heaven foretold the conteft, when he trod 75
The marble threshold of the Delphic God,
Curious to learn the counfels of the sky,
Ere yet he loos'd the rage of war on Troy.
Touch'd at the fong, Ulyffes fraight refign'd To foft affliction all his manly mind: Before his eyes the purple veft he drew, Induftrious to conceal the falling dew: But when the mufic paus'd he ceas'd to fhed
35 The flowing tear, and rais'd his drooping head:
And, lifting to the Gods a goblet crown'd,
He pour'd a pure libation to the ground.
Tranfported with the fong, the liftening train
Again with loud applause demand the straip ;
Again Ulyffes veil'd his pensive head,
Again, unmaun'd, a fhower of forrow shed:
Conceal'd he wept the king obferv'd alone
The filent tear, and heard the fecret groan :
Then to the bard alond: O cease to fing,
Dumb be thy voice, and mute th' harmonious
ftring;
Thus fpoke the prince: th' attedning peers obey, in ftate they move; Alcinous leads the way: Swift to Demodocus the herald flies, At once the failors to their charge arife: They launch the veffel, and unfurl the fails, And stretch the fwelling canvas to the gales; Then to the palace move: A gathering throng, Youth, and white age, tumultuous pour along:
Enough the feaft has pleas'd, enough the power 95 Of heavenly fong has crown'd the genial hour Inceffant in the games your ftrength difplay; Conteft, ye brave, the honours of the day:
In diftant regions the Phæacian fame :
None wield the gauntlet with fo dire a sway,
Or fwifter in the race devour the way;
None in the leap fpring with fo ftrong a bound,
Or firmer, in the wrestling, prefs the ground.
Thus fpoke the king; th' attending peers obey:
In ftate they move, Alcinous leads the way:
His golden lyre Demodocus unftrung,
High on a column in the palace hung:
And, guided by a herald's guardian cares,
Majestic to the lifts of Fame repairs.
Now fwarms the populace; a countless throng,
Youth and hoar age and man drives man along
The games begin; ambitious of the prize,
Acroncus, Thoon, and Eretmus rife;
The prize Ocyalus and Prymneus claim,
Anchialus and Ponteus, chiefs of Fame :
There Proreus, Neates, Eratreus appear,
And fam'd Amphialus, Polyncus' heir:
Euryalus Eke Mars terrific rofe,
When clad in wrath he withers hofts of foes:
Naubolides with grace unequall'd shone,
Or equall'd by 1.aodamas alone.
Steal from corroding care one tranfient day,
To glory give the space thou halt to ftay;
Short is the time, and, lo! ev'n now the gales 165
Call thee aboard, and ftretch the fwelling fails.
To whom with fighs Ulyffes gave reply;
Ah why th' ill-fuiting paftime must I try?
To gloomy care my thoughts alone are free;
Ill the gay fports with troubled hearts agree:
Sad from my natal hour my days have ran,
A much-afflicted, much-enduring man!
Who fuppliant to the king and peers implores
A fpeedy voyage to his native fhores.
Wide wanders, Laodam, thy erring tongue, 175
The fports of glory to the brave belong
(Retorts Euryalus): he boats no claim
Among the great, unlike the fons of Fame.
wandering merchant he frequents the main: 115 Some mean fea-farer in purfuit of gain; Studious of freight, in naval trade well skill'd, But dreads th' athletic labours of the field. Incens'd Ulyffes with a frown replies.
With thefe came forth Ambafineus the strong;
And three brave fons, from great Alcinous fprung.
Rang'd in a line the ready racers ftand,
Start from the goal, and vanish'd o'er the strand:
Swift as on wings of winds upborne they fly,
And drifts of rifing duft involve the sky:
Before the race, what space the hinds allow
Between the mule and ox from plough to plough;
Clytonous fprung: he wing'd the rapid way,
And bore th' nnrivall'd honours of the day.
With fierce embrace the brawny wrestlers join:
The conqueft, great Euryalus is thine.
Amphialus fprung forward with a bound,
Superior in the leap, a length of ground:
From Elatreus' ftrong arm the difcus flies,
And fings with unmatch'd force along the skies.
And Laodam whirls high, with dreadful fway,
The gloves of death, victorious in the fray.
While thus the peerage in the games contends,
In act to fpeak, Laodamas afcends:
friends, he cries, the ftranger feems well
fkill'd
To try th' illuftrious labours of the field:
I deem him brave: then grant the brave man's
Invite the hero to his fhare of Fame.
What nervous arms he boasts! how firm his tread!
His limbs how turn'd! how broad his fhoulders
fpread-
By age unbroke!--but all-confuming care [fpare:
Deftroys, perhaps, that strength that time would
Dire is the ocean, dread in all its forms!
Man must decay, when man conténds with ftorms.
Well haft thou spoke (Euryalus replies) :
Thine is the gueft, invite him thou to rife.
Swift at the word advancing from the crowd
He made obeifance, and thus fpoke aloud :
Vouchsafes the reverend stranger to difplay
His manly worth, and share the glorious day?
Father, arife! for thee thy port proclaims
Expert to conquer in the folemn games.
To fame arife! for what more fame can yield
Than the Swift race, or conflict of the field?
O forward to proclaim thy foul unwife!
With partial hands the Gods their gifts difpenfe; 185
Some greatly think, fome speak with manly fenfe;
Here Heaven an elegance of form denies,
But wisdom the defect of form fupplies:
This man with energy of thought controls,
And steals with modeft violence our fouls,
He fpeaks referv'dly, but he fpeaks with force,
Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse;
In public more than mortal he appears,
And, as he moves, the gazing crowd reveres.
While others, beauteous as th' ætherial kind, 195
The nobler portion want, a knowing mind.
In outward show Heaven gives thee to excel,
But Heaven denies the praile of thinking well.
Ill bear the brave a rude ungovern'd tongue,
And, youth, my generous foul refents the wrong;
Skill'd in heroic exercife, I claim
A poft of honour with the fons of Fame:
Such was my bob while vigour crown'd my days
Now care furrounds me, and my force decays;
Inur'd a melancholy part to bear,
In fcenes of death, by tempeft and by war.
Yet, thus by woes impair'd, no more I wave
To prove the hero.---Slander ftings the brave.
Beyond all marks, with many a giddy round
Down rufhing, it up turns a hill of ground.
That inftant Pallas, bursting from a cloud,
Fix'd a diftinguish'd mark, and cry'd aloud:
Ev'n he who fightlefs wants his visual ray
May by his touch alone award the day:
Thy fignal throw tranfcends the utmost bound
Of every champion by a length of ground.
securely bid the ftrongeft of the train
Arife to throw: the strongest throws in vain.
She fpoke; and momentary mounts the fky
The friendly voice Ulyffes hears with joy ;
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