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Rh To question thy appointment? Let the frowns Of this avenger every morn o'ercast The chearful dawn, and every evening damp With double night my dwelling; I will learn To hail them both, and unrepining bear His hateful presence: but permit my tongue One glad request, and if my deeds may find Thy awful eye propitious, O restore The rosy-featur'd maid; again to chear This lonely seat, and bless me with her smiles. He spoke; when instant, thro' the sable glooms With which that furious presence had involv'd The ambient air, a flood of radiance came Swift as the lightening flash; the melting clouds Flew diverse, and amid the blew serene Euphrosyné appear'd. With sprightly step The nymph alighted on th' irriguous lawn, And to her wond'ring audience thus begun.


 * Lo! I am here to answer to your vows,

And be the meeting fortunate! I come With joyful tidings; we shall part no more— Hark! how the gentle Echo from her cell Talks thro' the cliffs, and murm'ring o'er the stream Repeats the accent; we shall part no more. O my delightful friends! well-pleas'd on high The father has beheld you, while the might Of that stern foe with bitter trial prov'd Rh