The tow'ring pile, and foft abodes,
Wall'd by the hand of fervile Gods,.
Now spreads its ruins all around,
And lies inglorious on the ground.

An umpire, partial and unjust,
And a lewd woman's impious luft,

Lay heavy on her head, and funk her to the duft.
Since falfe Laomedon's tyrannic fway,

That durft defraud th' immortals of their

pay,

Her guardian Gods renounc'd their patronage,
Nor wou'd the fierce invading foe repel ;

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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,

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That drove whole armies back, and fingly clear'd the

field.

My vengeance fated, I at length refign
To Mars his offspring of the Trojan line:
Advanc'd to godhead let him rife,
And take his ftation in the fkies;
There entertain his ravish'd fight
With scenes of glory, fields of light;
Quaff with the Gods immortal wine,
And fee adoring nations croud his fhrine:

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Where Priam lies, and Priam's faithless race,
Be cover'd o'er with weeds, and hid in grass..
There let the wanton flocks unguarded stray;
Or, while the lonely shepherd fings,
Amidft the mighty ruins play,

And frisk upon the tombs of Kings.

May tigers there, and all the favage kind,
Sad folitary haunts, and filent deferts find;
In gloomy vaults, and nooks of palaces,
May th' unmolested lioness

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,

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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,.
Nor the disbowell'd earth explore

In fearch of the forbidden ore;

Thofe glitt'ring ills conceal'd within the mine,
Shall lie untouch'd, and innocently shine.
To the laft bounds that nature fets,.
The piercing colds and fultry heats,

The godlike race shall spread their arms,
Now fill the polar circle with alarms,

"Till ftorms and tempefts their pursuits confine ;-
Now fweat for conqueft underneath the line.

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,
That fhall the new foundations rafe:

Greece fhall in mutual leagues confpire
To ftorm the rifing town with fire,

And

And at their armies head myself will fhew
What Juno, urg'd to all her rage, can do.

Thrice fhould Apollo's felf the city raise
And line it round with walls of brass,

Thrice fhould my fav'rite Greeks his works confound,
And hew the fhining fabric to the ground:

Thrice fhould her captive dames to Greece return,
And their dead fons and flaughter'd husbands mourn.
But hold, my Mufe, forbear thy tow'ring flight,
Nor bring the fecrets of the Gods to light:
In vain would thy prefumptuous verse
Th' immortal rhetoric rehearse;

The mighty ftrains, in lyric numbers bound,
Forget their majefty, and lose their sound.

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