Medulla Poetarum Romanorum Or, the Most Beautiful and Instructive Passages of the Roman Poets. Being a Collection, (Disposed under proper Heads,) Of such Descriptions, Allusions, Comparisons, Characters, and Sentiments, as may best serve to shew the Religion, Learning, Politicks, Arts, Customs, Opinions, Manners, and Circumstances of the Antients. With Translations of the same in English Verse. By Mr. Henry Baker |
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Embroidery.
With rich Embroidery, the curious Maid,Her native Heav'n, and th' Elements display'd:
How parent Nature hush'd the ancient Wars
Of huddled Chaos, and its inbred Jars:
Sever'd the Seeds: and suiting to their Kind,
To proper Places all the Parts assign'd.
Sublimely born, the Light ascend on high:
The Heavier sink, and in the middle lye:
The Sky is lighted up: the Planets roll:
And active Flame informs the rapid Pole:
And flow the Seas, and pour their Waves along:
And Earth suspended on her Ballance hung.
In various Colours she express'd the Whole:
With Gold the Stars are kindl'd: purple roll
The washing Billows: and bright Gems display
An imitated Shore, to bound the seeming Sea.
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Deceive the Sight, and really seem to swell.
The gath'ring Ooze the slimy Rock besmears,
And working, in a Foam, the Main appears,
Dashing upon the Sands, and murm'ring to the Ears.
The World's five Zones she adds: the torrid One
Glows with the Fervor of th' incessant Sun.
The habitable Two, a milder Sky
Does with more gentle Heat and calmer Beams supply.
At both the Poles eternal Winter reigns,
And bitter Frost the bleaky Robe constrains,
Shiv'ring to Sight, and bound with icy Chains.—
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