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 When with tumultuous shouts the heav'ns rebound, And all Olympus trembles with the sound. Or with repeated accents they relate The fall of Troy, and dwell upon her fate; Oh sire! oh country, once with glory crown'd; Oh wretched race of Priam, once renown'd! Oh Jove! see Ilium smoking on the ground!


 * now name Ceres for the golden grain,

Bacchus for wine, and Neptune for the main: Or from the father's name point out the son; Or for her people introduce a town: So when alarm'd her natives dread their fates, Pale Africk shakes, and trembles thro' her states: And some, by Achelous' streams alone, Comprise the floods of all the world in one.


 * ! now they start aside, and change the strain

To fanci'd converse with an absent swain; To grots and caverns all their cares disclose, Or tell the solitary rocks their woes; To