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Pierides

or The Muses Mount. By Hugh Crompton
Crompton, Hugh
  
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96. The Iron Age.

1

When Saturn dwelt in Italy,
The Golden Age begun:
But (Ah!) ere my nativity,
The Golden Age was done.

2

I've read how he sometimes would go
And drink a pint of Wine
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With old Japetus, where they two
Would tell a tale divine.

3

They had their feasts of Love and Peace,
Knitting their hearts in Uno:
But now in stead of these, we be
Like Hercules and Iuno.

4

'Twas after that Iove had bereaven
His Father of his Crown,
And had assum'd the power of Heaven
To be his only own.

5

This revolution did produce
An happy Scene of powers;
And pleasure then was grown profuse:
I wish the case were ours.

6

But look where Pride doth sway the Stage,
And Folly rules the Pagin,
Th' event will be the Iron Age,
As well you may imagine.
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