Sang merrily, greeting the eve and the morn. And his note must be changed or I forsworn. And he gave to his lust dominion. But Mammon, the rogue, he soon was gone,- 'Twas faery gold, and he thought " All 's well;" Grace cast off him, and he cast off shame, And he served the fiend with hand and will, On the bare beach I found him howling away, With wan looks scathed and blighted. And hark what said the hope-lorn elf:— 66 False witch, false ocean's daughter, Thou gavest me gold,-thou shalt have myself! So plunged in the salt water. STATIUS, LIB. I. 493. OBTUTU gelida ora premit, lætusque per artus His chilly lips hard closing at the sight, His every member grueing with delight, At once by tokens manifest he spies That they are here, whom quaintly twisted plies. And knots and labyrinths of oracular saw, In form of beasts foreshown. With palms outspread Towards the sky, in awful accent said The king illumined: Thou, whose compass dread And universal empire dost contain Both heaven and earth and all their woe and pain; Aid but the work, and make the omen sure, PEAN OF ARIPHOON THE SICYONIAN. HOLIEST and first of all the happy powers, In riches, offering, or high place Which, in the hidden nets of Aphrodite, That from the gods poor man obtains Blest Hygeia! at thy call Blossoms every pleasant thing: With thee the Graces spend their spring; But without thee No living thing can happy be. |