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A Poetical Translation of the elegies of Tibullus

and of the poems of Sulpicia. With The Original Text, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. In two volumes. By James Grainger
  

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What Spells devote you? say, what Philtres bind?
What Mid-night Sorceress fascinates your Mind?
Spells can seduce the Corn from neighbouring Plains!
The head-long Serpent halts at Magic Strains!
And did not Cymbals stop thy prone Career,
A Spell thee Luna from thy Orb would tear!