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Rh Then thro’ the Peers, with sparkling Nectar crown’d, The Goblet circles, and the Health goes round. With curling Tresses grac’d, and rich Attire, stands, and sweeps his golden Lyre; The Truths, which ancient Atlas taught, he sings, And Nature’s Secrets, on the sounding Strings: Why changes; why the Sun retires, Shorn of his radiant Beams, and genial Fires; From what Originals, and Causes, came Mankind and Beasts, the Rain, and rising Flame; , dreadful with his stormy Star; The wat’ry, and the Northern Car; Why Suns in Summer the slow Night detain, And rush so swift in Winter to the Main. With Shouts the praise the Song divine, And in the loud Applause the joyn. The Queen, in various Talk, prolongs the Hours, Drinks deep of Love, and ev’ry Word devours; This Moment longs of to enquire, The next of, his unhappy Sire; Rh