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Rh Tis painful to relate it, to be silent

Is pain: each circumstance is full of woe.

When stern debate amongst the gods appear'd,

And discord in the courts of heavn was rous'd;

Whilst against Saturn some conspiring will 'd

To pluck him from the throne, that Jove might reign;

And some, averse, with ardent zeal oppos'd

Jove's rising pow'r and empire o'er the gods;

My counsels, tho' discreetest, wisest, best,

Mov'd not the Titans, those impetuous sons

Of Ouranus and Terra, whose high spirits,

Disdaining milder measures, proudly ween'd

To seize by force the sceptre of the sky.

Oft did my goddess mother, Themis now,

Now Gaia, under various names design'd ,