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78 While, as along slow rolls thy sickly car,

Love and amaze the haughtiest bosoms seize.

In Lemnos pining with th' envenom'd wound

The son of Poean, Philoctetes, lay:

There, after tedious quest, the heroes found,

And bore the limping archer thence away;

By whom fell Priam's tow'rs (so Fate ordain'd)

And the long harass'd Greeks their wish'd repose obtain'd.

May Hiero too, like Poeau's son, receive

Recovered vigor from celestial hands!

And may the healing God proceed to give

The pow'r to gain whate'er his wish demands.

But now, Ο Muse, address thy sounding lays

To young Dinomenes, his virtuous heir.

Sing to Dinomenes his father's praise;

His fathers praise shall glad his filial ear.

For him hereafter shalt thou touch the string,

And chant in friendly strains fair Aetna's future king.

Hiero for him th' illustrious city rear'd,

And fill'd with sons of Greece her stately tow'rs,

Where by the free-born citizen rever'd

The Spartan laws exert their virtuous pow'rs.

For by the statutes, which their fathers gave,

Still must the restive Dorian youth be led;

Who dwelling once on cold Eurotas' wave,