BILL Last in one face are both their faces join'd, As when the stock and grafted twig combin'd A fingle body with a double fex. 110 The boy, thus loft in woman, now survey'de 5115 The river's guilty stream, and thus he pray'd, (He pray'd, but wonder'd at his fofter tone, Surpris'd to hear a voice but half his own) "You parent gods, whofe heav'nly names h bear, "Hear your Hermaphrodite, and grant my pray'r; 120 "Oh! grant that whomfoe'er these streams contain, "If man he enter'd, he may rife again "Supple, unfinew'd, and but half a man!" The heav'nly parents anfwer'd from on high Their two-fhap'd son, the double votary, Then gave a fecret virtue to the flood, 125 And ting'd its fource to make his withes good. 127. HORACE, BOOK III. ODE III. AUGUSTUS had a design to rebuild Troy, and make it the metropolis of the Roman empire: having clofetted feveral Senators on the project, Horace is supposed to have written the following Ode on this occafion. THE HE man refolv'd and steady to his trust, May the rude rabble's infolence defpife, And the stern brow and the harsh voice defies, Not the rough whirlwind that deforms That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. 10 Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confufion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack, 35 And stand secure amidst a falling world. Such were the godlike arts that led Bright Pollux to the blefs'd abodes; Such did for great Alcides plead, 20 And gain'd a place among the gods, Where now Augustus, mix'd with heroes, lies, And to his lips the nectar bowl applies; His ruddy lips the purple tincture show, By arts like these did young Lyaus rise, His tigers drew him to the skies; Wild from the defert, and unbroka, In vain they foam'd, in vain they star'd, In vain their eyes with fury glar'd; 23 30 He tam'd 'em to the lafh, and bent 'em to the yoke. And loft the monarch in the god. Bright Juno then her awful silence broke, 35 "Troy," fays the goddefs," perjurid Troy, has "The dire effects of her proud tyrant's guilt ; [felt "The towering pîle and soft abodes, pi "Wall'd by the hand of fervile godisi siivers 45 "And a lewd woman's impious:luft,o b'omo 40 "Since falfe Laomedon's tyrannic sway, "That durft defraud th' immortals of their pay, "Her guardian gods renounc'd their patronage, "Nor would the fierce invading foea repel yo "To my refentment, and Minerva's ragejle, but a "The guilty king and the whole people fell. 50 "And now the long-protracted wars are o'er, "The foft adult'rer shines no more ; "No more does Hector's force the Trojans shield, 55 "That drove whole armies back, and fingly clear'dthe 66 My vengeance fated, I at length resign [field. "To Mars his offspring of the Trojan line: "Advanc'd to godhead let him rise, "And take his station in the skies, "There entertain his ravish'd fight "With scenes of glory, fields of light, Quaff with the gods immortal wine, "And fee adoring nations crowd his shrine. "The thin remains of Troy's afflicted host "In diftant realms may feats unenvy'd find, "And flourish on a foreign coaft, 60 65 "But far be Rome from Troy disjoin'd, "Remov'd by feas from the disastrous shore, "May endless billows rife between, and storms un"number'd roar. "Still let the curs'd detefted place, "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 fhepherd fings, "Amidst the mighty ruin's play, "And frisk upon the tombs of kings. "May tigers there, and all the savage kind, "Sad folitary haunts and filent deferts find; 70 75 "In gloomy vaults and nooks of palaces, "May th' unmolested lionefs "Her brinded whelps fecurely lay, 80 "Or, couch'd, in dreadful slumbers waste the day. "While Troy in heaps of ruins lies, "Rome and the Roman Capitol shall 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 part the fever'd world in two: 85 90 "Thro' 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 fhall despise, "And look on gold with undefiring eyes, "Nor the difbowell'd earth explore "In fearch of the forbidden ore'; " Those glitt'ring ills conceal'd within the mine, "The piercing colds and fultry heats, "The godlike race shall spread their arms, "Now fill the Pollar Circle with alarms, 95 ICO "Till storms and tempests their purfuits confine, "Now sweat for conquest underneath the Line. 165 "This only law the victor fhall restrain, "On these conditions fhall he reign; |