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HEN Jove, in anger to the sons of Earth, Bid artful Vulcan give Pandora birth, And sent the fatal gift which spread below O'er all the wretched race contagious woe, Unhappy man, by Vice and Folly tost, Found in the storms of life his quiet lost, While Envy, Avarice, and Ambition, hurl'd Discord and death around the warring world; Then the blest peasant left his fields and fold, And barter'd love and peace for power and gold; Left his calm cottage and his native plain, In search of wealth to tempt the faithless main; Or, braving danger, in the battle stood, And bathed his savage hands in human blood!