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 For sure it did on earth this office bear, And Hymen's pleasures were its nightly care; Till envious winds with boist'rous fury rose: But goddess! thou the mournful tale disclose; At once from high the sacred torch was tost, Its flame extinguish'd, and the lover lost. Where Neptune stretcheth out an arm, to bound Fair Europe's confines from the Asian ground, A rising town on either shore commands The distant sea, and aws the neighb'ring lands; Here the Idalian boy his sport begun, And with one dart a double conquest won: To equal breasts an equal flame convey'd, The lovely'st youth ador'd the lovely'st maid. He sure must never have convers'd with fame, Who knows not Hero and Leander's name: Alike both glories of their native place; Abydos one, and one did Sestos grace.