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Invocation to the Catalogue of Ships.

Say, Virgins, feated round the throne

divine,

All-knowing Goddeffes! immortal Nine! Since earth's wide regions, heaven's unmeafur'd height,

And hell's abyfs, hide nothing from your fight,

(We, wretched mortals! loft in doubts

below,

But guefs by rumour, and but boast we

know)

Oh fay what heroes, fir'd by thirst of fame, 'Or urg'd by wrongs, to Troy's deftruction

came!

To count them all, demands a thousand

tongues,

A throat of brafs and adamantine lungs.

Now,

Now, Virgin Goddeffes, immortal Nine! That round Olympus' heavenly fummit shine, Who fee through heaven and earth, and hell profound,

And all things know, and all things can refound; Relate what armies fought the Trojan land,

What nations follow'd, and what chiefs comi mand:

(For doubtful Fame distracts mankind below, And nothing can we tell, and nothing know). Without your aid, to count th' unnumber'd train," A thousand mouths, thoufand tongues were

vain.

Book V. v. 1.

But Pallas now Tydides' foul infpires, Fills with her force, and warms with all

: her fires :

F

Above

Above the Greeks his deathlefs fame to

raife,

And crown her hero with diftinguifh'd

praise,

High on his helm celeftial lightnings

play,

His beamy fhield emits a living ray;
Th' unwearied blaze inceffant ftreams

fupplies,

Like the red ftar that fires th' autumnal

fkies.

But Pallas now Tydides' foul inspires,

Fills with her rage, and warms with all her fires; force

·O'er all the Greeks decrees his fame to raise,

Above the Greeks her warrior's fame to raife, his deathlefs

And crown her hero with immortal praise :

distinguish'd

Bright from his beamy creft the lightnings play,

High on

helm

From his broad buckler flash'd the living ray,

High on his helm celeftial lightnings play,
His beamy fhield emits a living ray.

The Goddess with her breath the flame fupplies,
Bright as the star whofe fires in Autumn rife;
Her breath divine thick streaming flames fupplies,
Bright as the ftar that fires th' autumnal skies :
Th' unwearied blaze inceffant fireams fupplies,
Like the red ftar that fires th' autumnal skies.

When first he rears his radiant orb to

fight,

And bath'd in ocean fhoots a keener

light.

Such glories Pallas on the chief beftow'd,

Such from his arms the fierce effulgence

flow'd;

F 2

Onward

Onward the drives him furious to engage,

Where the fight burns, and where the thickeft rage.

When fresh he rears his radiant orb to fight, And gilds old Occan with a blaze of light, Bright as the ftar that fires th' autumnal skies, Fresh from the deep, and gilds the feas and skies. Such glories Pallas on her chief beftow'd,

Such fparkling rays from his bright armour flow'd.

Such from his arms the fierce effulgence flow’d. Onward the drives him headlong to engage, furious

Where the war bleeds, and where the fierceft rage. fight burns thickest

The fons of Dares firft the combat fought, A wealthy pricft, but rich without a fault;

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