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 The conscious Æther was with flames o'erspread, The nymphs ran shrieking round the mountain's head; Nor let young Troilus, unhappy boy, Meet fierce Achilles'Achilles [sic] in the plains of Troy; But shew the unequal youth's untimely fall, To great Æneas on the Tyrian wall; Supine and hanging from his empty ear, Drag'd by his panting coursers thro' the war. This, from our bright examples you may trace, To write with judgment, decency, and grace; From others learn invention to increase, And search in chief the glorious sons of Greece; For her bright treasures Argos' realms explore, Bring home triumphant all her gather'd store, And with her spoils enrich the Latian shore. Nor is the glory of translation less, To give the Grecian bards a Roman dress; If Phœbus' gracious smiles the labour crown, Than if some new invention were your own. Mincio ' s and Manto's glorious son behold; Th' immortal Virgil sheath'd in foreign gold,