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THE GREEK GODS 87 Wordsworth, Ode (1814) v. : And ye, Pierian Sisters, sprung from Jove And sage Mnemosyne. Pope, Spring 11 : O let my Muse her slender reed inspire. Shak., Sonnet xxxviii. ; Spenser, F. Q. i. Pr. 2 ; Swift, Last Speech of Daniel Jackson : There's nine, I see, the Muses, too, are nine. Who would refuse to die a death like mine! 1. Thou first rung, Clio, celebrate my name; 2. Euterp, in tragic numbers do the same. 3. This rung, I see, Terpsichore's thy flute. 4. Erato, sing me to the gods ; ah, do't; 5. Thalia, don't make me a comedy ; 6. Urania, raise me towards the starry sky ; 7. Calliope, to ballad strains descend, 8. And Polyhymnia, tune them for your friend. 9. So shall Melpomene mourn my fatal end. Orpheus: Vergil, Geor. iv. 454 ; Ovid, Met. x. 3 sg., xi. 22 sq. ; Hygimis, Fab. xiv. ; Pope, Summer 81 : But would you sing and rival Orpheus' strain, The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the pow'rful call, And headlong streams hang list'ning in their fall ! Ode on St. Cecilia's Day 113 : Yet ev'n in death Eurydice he sung, Eurydice still trembled on his tongue, Eurydice the woods, Eurydice the floods, Eurydice the rocks, and hollow mountains rung ; Temple of Fame 83 ; Shak., Titus Andronicus ii. 4, 51 : As Cerberus at the Thracian poet's feet ; Two Gentlemen of Verona iii. 2, 78, Merchant of Venice v. 1, 79, King Henry VIII. iii. 1, 3, Rape of Lucrece 79. 2. THE DIVINITIES OF WAR AND STRIFE 116. The god that inflamed and stirred up war was called Ares (Lat. Mars). Originally he was the chief god of the warlike race of the Thracians, perhaps as