Or wasteful civil tumults roll along With fiercer ftrength, and louder roar, Driving the torrent of the throng, And gathering into power. Let a proud tyrant cast a killing frown; Or Jove in angry thunder on the world look down ; Nay, let the frame of Nature crack, And all the fpacious globe on high, Yet he'll furvey the horrid scene With steady courage and undaunted mien, The only thing ferene! II. Thus Pollux, and great Hercules, 10 35 20 Roam'd through the world, and bleft the nations round, Till, rais'd at length to heavenly palaces, Mankind, as Gods, their benefactions crown'd, 25 With these, Augustus shall for ever shine, And ftain his rofy lips in cups divine. Thus his fierce tigers dauntless Bacchus bear; Impatient of the bit, and fretting on the rein; 30 Through yielding clouds he drives th' impetuous car. Great Romulus pursued the shining trace, And leapt the lake, where all The rest of mortals fall, And with his father's horfes fcour'd the fame bright airy race. 35 * Romulas was fuppofed to be the son of Mars by the priestess Ilia. Then HI. Then in full fenate of the deities, Settling the feats of power, and future fate, Juno began the high debate, And with this righteous fentence pleas'd the skies: "O Troy! he faid, O hated Troy! "A foreign woman, and a † boy, "Lewd, partial, and unjust, "Shook all thy proudeft towers to duft; "Inclin'd to ruin from the time, 40 "Thy king did mock two powers divine, 45 "And ras'd thy fated walls in perjury, "But doubly damn'd by that offence, "No more the treacherous ravisher "Shines in full pomp and youthful charms; "Nor Priam's impious houfe with Hector's fpear, "Repels the violence of Grecian arms, IV. "Our feuds did long embroil the mortal rout, "At last the ftorm is spent, "My fury with it ebbing out, "Thefe terms of peace content; "To Mars I grant among the stars a place "And in his fhining court his name enrol, 55 60 "With the ferene and ever-vacant gods; "While seas shall rage between his Rome and Troy, "The horrid diftance breaking wide, "The banish'd Trojans fhall the globe enjoy, "And reign in every place befide; "While beasts infult my * judge's duft, and hide "Their litter in his curfed tomb, "The fhining capitol of Rome "Shall overlook the world with awful pride, 65 70 "And Parthians take their law from that eternal "dome. ・マ "Let Rome extend her fame to every fhore; "And let no banks or mounds restrain "Th' impetuous torrent of her wide command; 75 "Shining in polish'd steel, she dares «Till, fought in evil hour by hands unblest, "There iffued forth a direful train of woes,' "That give mankind no rest; "For gold, devoted to th' infernal gods, "No native human uses knows. 80 85 • Paris. VI. "Where VI. "Where'er great Jove did place "The bounds of nature yet unfeen, "Rejoicing, onward they approach "The madding fires, in wild debauch, 90 95 "The fnows and rains unborn, in endlefs eddies "" whirl'd! VII. " 'Tis I, O Rome, pronounce these fates behind, "But will thy reign with this condition bind, "That no falfe filial piety, "In idle shapes deluding thee, "Tempt thee again to raise a Trojan tower ;. "Haunted with omens ftill the fame, "Rebuilt shall but renew the former flame, "Jove's wife and fifter leading on the wars. "Thrice let her fhine with brazen walls, "Rear'd up by heavenly hands; "And thrice in fatal dust she falls, "By faithful Grecian bands; Thrice the dire fcene fhall on the world return, "And captive wives again their fons and husbands "" mourn." But But top, prefumptuous Mufe, thy daring flight, 115 GREENWICH PAR K. T HE Paphian ifle was once the bleft abode Of beauty's goddess and her archer-god. There blissful bowers and amorous fhades were seen, Fair cypress walks, and myrtles ever green. 'Twas there, furrounded by a hollow'd wood, Sacred to love, a splendid temple stood; Where altars were with coftly gums perfum'd, And lovers fighs arofe, and fmoke from hearts confum'd. Till, thence remov'd, the queen of beauty flies Defcribe the groves beneath, the fylvan bowers, But |