The tow'ring pile, and foft abodes, An umpire, partial and unjust, Lay heavy on her head, and funk her to the duft. That durft defraud th' immortals of their pay, Her guardian Gods renounc'd their patronage, Το my resentment, and Minerva's rage, The guilty King and the whole people fell. And now the long-protracted wars are o'er, The foft adult'rer fhines no more; No more does Hector's force the Trojans shield, } That drove whole armies back, and fingly clear'd the field. My vengeance fated, I at length refign The Where Priam lies, and Priam's faithless race, And frisk upon the tombs of Kings. May tigers there, and all the favage kind, Her brinded whelps fecurely lay, Or, couch'd, in dreadful flumbers wafte the day. While Troy in heaps of ruins lies, Rome and the Roman capitol fhall rise; Th' illuftrious exiles unconfin'd Shall triumph far and near, and rule mankind. In vain the fea's intruding tide Europe from Afric shall divide, } And And part the fever'd world in two; Through Afric's fands their triumphs they shall spread, And the long train of victories pursue. To Nile's yet undiscover'd head. Riches the hardy foldiers shall despise, And look on gold with un-defiring eyes,. In fearch of the forbidden ore; Thofe glitt'ring ills conceal'd within the mine, The godlike race shall spread their arms, "Till ftorms and tempefts their pursuits confine ;- This only law the victor fhall restrain,, On thefe conditions fhall he reign; If none his guilty hand employ To build again a second Troy, If none the rash design pursue, Nor tempt the vengeance of the Gods anew.. A curfe there cleaves to the devoted place, Greece fhall in mutual leagues confpire And And at their armies head myself will fhew Thrice fhould Apollo's felf the city raise Thrice fhould my fav'rite Greeks his works confound, Thrice fhould her captive dames to Greece return, The mighty ftrains, in lyric numbers bound, TRAN |