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Ondemn’d on Caucaſus to lie, Still to be dying, not to die; With certain Pain uncertain of Relief, True Emblem of a wretched Lover’s Grief!
 * To whoſe inſpecting Eye ’tis given
 * To view the Planetary Way,
 * To penetrate Eternal Day,
 * And to revolve the Starry Heaven.

From Jupiter ſpring all our Woes,
 * Thetis is Jove’s, who once was thine:
 * ’Tis vain, O Peleus, to oppoſe
 * Thy Torturer—and mine. Contented