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No friendly bridge, alas! was there, 
To bear him to the weeping fair ; 
No gliding bark her eyes furvey— 
Yet vent’rous Love explores the way. 
The Cretan bower’s entangled maze 
Deedalian art in vain fhall raife ;— 
Inventive Love dete¢ts the clue’: 
The montter’s favage rage he quells,- 
The fire-exhaling fteer repells, 
And yokes him to the peaceful plough. 
Nor Styx, that ninefold winds his way» 
The God’s refiftlefs courfe can ftay 3 
Tho’ Hell’s dire forms around him glide, 
Yet Love redeems the Thracian bride. 
Leander too, whofe looks impart 
The tender griefs that rend his heart, 
With new-born ardour Love fupplies. 
When day-light pales its fervid ray, 
His Elowine bofom cleaves the fpray, 
And through the dafhing furge he hies. 
He thoots athwart the liquid plain, 
And pants the friendly fhore to gain; 
Where high upon the darkfome tow’r 
The flambeau cheers the lonely hour, 
Now blefs’d with beauty’s fondeft fmile, 
The yéuth forgets his recent toil, 
And ev’ry pang he feit before: 
Love’s fweet reward the hour employs 5 
He revels in celeftial joys, 
For himalone referv’d in ftore — 
Till morn obtrufive ’gins to beam, 
And chafe the lover’s blifsful dream. 
Hard tafk ! her {nowy arms to leave, 
And tempt again the ftormy wave! 
Thus thrice ten times had Phebus’ ray 
Unbarr’d the orient gates of day, 
And wing’d with joy each moment flew, 
In fweeteft joys of ftolen love, 
As Jove himfelf might figh to prove, 
Forever young, andever new! _ 
Nor blifs fincere fhall mortals know, 
Whofe bofom fcapes the thafts of woe; 
Through ill we ev’ry good attain, 
And love rewards an age of pain! 
Bright Hefper and Aurora rife 
Alternate in the vaulted fkies, 
Nor yet perceiv’d the happy pair 
That Autumn thian’d the bow'ry thade 5 
Nor dreamt that brumal blafts invade 
And chill, and nip the fading year. 
But ftill with fecret joy they trace 
Each waning day’s contrafted {pace 5 
And blefs’d the Gods with fond delight, 
That longer grew each welcome night. 
Already now had night and day 
Held o’er the world an equal fway, 
When, penfive from the caftle’s wall, 
The lonely maid, with anxious eye, 
Beheld the fun defcend the fky, 
And hafte on Thetis’ lap to fall. 
Each ruder wind was hufh’d to fleep, 
Unruffied lay the glaffy deep, 
Ané all its {mooth expanfe confefs’d 
The purpled glories of the weft. 
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Gay fhoals of wanton dolphins ride, 
Difporting on the cryftal tide, 
And glitter to the fetting ray 5 
While, rifing from their dark abodes, 
A varied train of watry Gods 
Emerge, and grace departing day. 
Nor other eyes than their’s atteft 
The ftory of the nightly gueft ; 
And none the am’rous theft reveal’d, 
For Hecate every mouth had feal’d. 
She gaz’d, and hail’d the placid flood, - 
And thus addreffed the guardian god, 
With accent bland and tearful eye :— 
‘* Propitious pow’r, canft thou beguile ? 
Shall ruin lurk in Nature’s {mile ?— 
Ah, no! avaunt the impious lie! 
But man fhall play the traitor’s part, 
And anger fteel a parent’s heart ; 
“Yet thou art kind, and deign’ft to prove 
The refuge of defpairing Love ! 
‘* Within thefe dreary walls entomb’d, 
How fad each ling’ring day had gloom’d, 
What anguifh mark’d the darken’d hour 3 
Had not thy kindly wave convey’d, 
Without a bark or bridge’s aid, 
The lover to the lonefome tew’r? 
Tremendous is thy deep abode, 
' And dire the fury of the figod ; 
Yet Love’s foft vows could {till prevail, 
And courage mock the rifing gale. 
‘¢ For thou the pow’r of Love hait known, 
And bow’d before his potent throne, 
When Helle caught thy fond furvey 5 
What time the coltien ram convey’d 
Acrofs thy wave the timid maid, 
In pride of beauty’s brighteft day, 
A willing captive to her charms, 
Thou heldft herin thy eager arms, 
And drew’ft her ’neath the liquid plain, 
To grace and blefs thy hidden reign. 
** And now, immortal at thy fide, 
Still.blooms the beauteous captur’d bride, 
And lifts as haplefs lovers wail 5 
She fills the fpirit of the flood, 
And fmeoths the failor’s tracklefs road, 
And gently fwells his gliding fail ; 
Aufpicious Helle! goddefs fair ! 
Regard thy fuppliant’s tender pray’r! 
Avert each danger of the fea! 
And fpeed Leander’s well-known way.” 
She fpoke, when lo! the alter’d fky 
Already told the tempeft nigh: 
And now fhe fixt, with trembling hand, 
The friendly torch, whofe glimm’ring ray 
Should point the eves s ftormy way, 
And guide him to the welcome ftrand. 
The fargy din fill louder grows, 
The gale with wilder fury blows, 
The ftars forfake th’ etherial dome, 
And Nature fhudders at the gloom. 
Dun night aflumes her dreary reign, 
And adds new terrors to the icene, 
And evw’ry cloud pours out its {tore 5 
The loofen’d winds with fury fweep 
The ruffled bofom of the deep, 
And lightnings glare, and thunders roar. 
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