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34 The plant which shades that hallow'd place

His voice persuasive could obtain;

Where Jupiter's tall grove a shelter gave

Common to all mankind, and chaplets to the brave.

For now to his great father's name

Perform'd was every sacred rite;

And when the full-orb'd lamp of night

Pour'd from her golden car the severing flame,

He gave each fifth revolving year,

Where falls Alpheus' high career,

To judge the well-earn'd meed of fame.

But in Saturnian Pelops' vale

No trees waved beauteous to the gale—

No verdant grove, no depth of shade

The raging solar beam allay'd;

His mind impell'd him then to go

Where Ister's streams through Scythian regions flow;

Latona's huntress daughter there

Received the hero as he came

From Arcady's deep glens and summits fair.