ing prayers respect of him,--of me:
"Grant that, entomb'd together, both may rest;
"A pair by faithful love conjoined,--by death
"United close. And thou fair tree which shad'st
"Of one the miserable corse; and two
"Soon with thy boughs wilt cover,--bear the mark
"Of the sad deed eternal;--ting'd thy fruit
"With mournful coloring: monumental type
"Of double slaughter. Speaking thus, she plac'd
"The steely point, while yet with blood it smok'd,
"Beneath her swelling breast; and forward fell.
"Her final prayer reach'd heaven; her parents reach'd:
"Purple the berries blush, when ripen'd full;
"And in one urn the lovers' ashes rest."

She ceas'd: a silent interval, but short,
Ensu'd; and next Leuconoe thus address'd
Her listening sisters:--"Ev'n the sun himself,
"Whose heavenly light so universal shines,
"To love is subject: his amours I tell.
"This deity's keen sight the first espy'd--
"(For all things penetrating first he sees)
"The crime of Mars and Venus; sore chagrin'd,
"To Vulcan he th' adulterous theft display'd,
"And told him where they lay. Appall'd he heard,--
"And dropp'd the tools his dexterous hand contain'd;
"But soon recover'd. Slender chains of brass,
"And nets, and traps he form'd; so wonderous fine,
"They mock'd the power of sight: for far less fine,
"The smallest thread the distaff forms; or line,
"Spun by the spider, pendent from the roof.
"Curious he form'd it; at the lightest touch
"It yielded; each momentum, slight howe'er,
"Caus'd its recession: this he artful hung,
"The couch enfolding. When the faithless wife,
"And paramour upon the bed embrac'd,
"Both in the lewd conjunction were ensnar'd;
"Caught by the husband's skill, whose art the chains
"In novel form had fram'd. The Lemnian god
"Instant wide threw the ivory doors, and gave
"Admittance free to every curious eye:
"In shameful guise together bound they laid.
"But some light gods, not blaming much the sight,
"Would wish thus sham'd to lie: loud laugh'd the whole,
"And long in heaven the tale jocose was told.

"The well-remember'd deed, the Cyprian queen
"Retorting, made the god remember too:
"And him who her conceal'd amours disclos'd,
"In turn betray'd. What now, Hyperion's son,
"Avails thy beauty!--or thy radiant flames?
"For thou, whose fires warm all the wide-spread world,
"Burn'st with a new-felt heat! Thou, whose wide view,