The Hymns of Callimachus, Translated from the Greek into English Verse, With Explanatory Notes To which are added, Select Epigrams, and the Coma Berenices of the same Author, Six Hymns of Orpheus, and The Encomium of Ptolemy by Theocritus. By William Dodd |
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IV.
[A youth, who thought his father's wife]
A youth, who thought his father's wifeHad lost her malice with her life,
Officious with a chaplet grac'd
The statue on her tomb-stone plac'd:
When, sudden falling on his head,
With the dire blow it struck him dead:
Be warn'd from hence, each foster-son,
Your step-dame's sepulchre to shun.
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