Some ripen'd fruits, fome fragrant honey, bring;;
And fome fetch water from the running spring;
While others warble from the boughs, to cheer
Their infant-charge, and tune her tender ear.
Soon as the fun forfakes the evening skies,
And hid in shades the gloomy forest lies,
The nightingales-their tuneful vigils keep,
And lull her, with their gentler strains, to sleep.
This the prevailing rumour: as she grew,
No dubious tokens spoke the rumour true.
In every farming feature might be seen

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Some bright refemblance of the Cyprian queen : 28
Nor was it hard the hunter youth. to trace,
In all her early paffion of the chace:

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And when, on springing flowers reclin'd, fhe fung,
The birds upon the bending branches hung,
While, warbling, fhe exprefs'd their various ftrains,
And, at a distance, charm'd the listening swains :
So fweet her voice refounding through the wood,
They thought the Nymph fome Syren from the flood.
Half human thus by lineage, half divine,

In forefts did the lonely beauty thine,

Like woodland flowers, which paint the defert glades, And waste their fweets in unfrequented fhades.

No human face fhe faw, and rarely feen

By human face a folitary queen

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She rul'd, and rang'd, her fhady empire round.
No horn the filent huntress bears; no hound,
With noify cry, disturbs her folemn chace,
Swift, as the bounding ftag, fhe wings her pace;

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And,

And, bend whene'er fhe will her ebon bow,
A speedy death arrefts the flying foe.
The bow the hunting goddess first supply'd,.
And ivory quiver cross her shoulders ty'd..

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Th' imperious queen of heaven, with jealous eyes,

Beholds the blooming virgin from the skies,

At once admires, and dreads her growing charms,
And fees the god already in her arms :

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In vain, she finds, her bitter tongue reproves

His broken vows, and his clandeftine loves:

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Jove ftill continues frail: and all in vain
Does Thule in obfcureft fhades remain,

While Maja's fon, the thunderer's winged spy,
Informs him where the lurking beauties lie.
What fure expedient then fhall Juno find,

To calm her fears, and cafe her boding mind?
Delays to jealous minds a torment prove ;,
And Thule ripens every day for love.

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She mounts her car, and shakes the filken reins;
The harness'd peacocks fpread their painted trains,
And smooth their glofly necks against the sun :.
The wheels along the level azure run.
Eastward the goddess guides her gaudy team,
And perfects, as the rides, her forming scheme.
The various orbs now pafs'd, adown the steep
Of heaven the chariot whirls, and plunges deep
In fleecy clouds, which o'er the mid-land main
Hang pois'd in air, to blefs the ifles with rain:
And here the panting birds repofe a while :
Nor fo their queen; the gains the Cyprian ifle,

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By fpeedy zephyrs borne in thickned air:
Unfeen the feeks, unfeen fhe finds, the fair.

Now o'er the mountain tops the rising fun
Shot purple rays: now Thule had begun
Her morning chace, and printed in the dews
Her fleeting steps. The goddefs now pursues,
Now over-takes her in the full career,
And flings a javelin at the flying deer.
Amaz'd, the virgin huntress turns her eyes;
When Juno, (now Diana in difguife,)
Let no vain terrors difcompofe thy mind;
My fecond vifit, like my firft, is kind.
Thy ivory quiver, and thy ebon bow,
Did not I give ?-Here fudden blushes glow
On Thule's cheeks: her bufy eyes furvey

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I own thee, goddess bright, the nymph replies,
Goddess, I own thee, and thy favours prize :
Goddess of woods, and lawns, and level plains,
Fresh in my mind thine image ftill remains.

Then Juno, beauteous ranger of the grove,
My darling care, fair object of my love,
Hither I come, urg'd by no trivial fears,

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TRANSLATIONS.

THE FIRST OLYMPIONIQUE OF PINDAR. To HIERO of SYRACUSE, victorious in the HORSE-RACE.

AR G U M E N T.

THE Poet praifes Hiero for his juftice, his wisdom, and his skill in mufic. He likewife celebrates the horfe that won the race, and the place where the Olympick Games were performed. From the place (namely Peloponnefus) he takes an occafion of di-...... greffing to the known fable of Tantalus and Pelops; whence, returning to Hiero, he fets forth the felicity of the Olympian Victors. Then he concludes, by praying to the gods to preferve the glory and dignity. of Hiero, admonishing him to moderation of mind, in his high ftation; and, laftly, glories in his own excellency in compofitions of this kind.

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STROPHE I. Measures 18.

ACH element to water yields;

And gold, like blaz ing fire by night,. Amidst the ftores of wealth that builds The mind aloft, is eminently bright:

But

But if, my foul, with fond defire

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To fing of games thou doft afpire,

As thou by day canst not defcry,

Through all the liquid waste of sky,

One burnish'd ftar, that like the fun does glow,
And cherish every thing below,

So, my fweet foul, no toil divine,

In fong, does like th' Olympian shine:
Hence do the mighty poets raise

A hymn, of every tongue the praise,
The son of Saturn to refound,

When far, from every land, they come

To vifit Hiero's regal dome,

Where peace, where plenty, is for ever found:

ANTISTROPHE I. Meafures 18.

Lord of Sicilia's fleecy plains,

He governs, righteous in his power,

And, all excelling while he reigns,

From every lovely virtue crops the flower :
In mufic, bloffom of delight,

Divinely skill'd, he cheers the night,

As we are wont, when friends defign
To feat and wanton o'er their wine:

But from the wall the Dorian harp take down,

If Pifa, city of renown,

And if the fleet victorious fteed,

The boaft of his unrival'd breed,
Heart-pleafing raptures did infpire,
And warm thy breast with sacred fire,