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Now glads the heart with transport's beam,

Now whirls them in despair again.

But not to any son of earth

Has ever yet a sign been given

By the immortal powers of heaven

To know th' event before it come to birth.

Full oft the wishes of mankind

An unexpected issue find,

When joy's bright promise ends in wo.

Oft too the beams of bliss arise

To him whose shatter'd vessel lies

Whelm'd in the stormy gulf below.

Son of Philanor!—like the bird

Whose shouts within are only heard,

Ne'er had thy speed, unknown to fame,

Exalted an inglorious name.

Driven by sedition's broils to roam

Far from thy native Cretan home,

Olympia's verdant chaplet now

Encircles thine illustrious brow.

For thee their twofold chaplets twine

The Delphic palm and Isthmian pine,

Now fix'd in Himera's adopted plain,

The tepid fountains of the nymphs you crown,

Ergoteles, with your own high renown,

And bid their springs unwonted honour gain.