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Hence on thy Head their impious Vengeance fell.
But thou, O faithful to thy Fame,
The Muse's Law did'st rightly know;
That who would animate his Lays,
And other Minds to Virtue raise,
Must feel his own with all her Honours glow.
III. I.
Whose Verse adorn'd a [1]Tyrant's Crimes?
Who saw majestic Rome betray'd,
And lent the imperial Ruffian Aid?
Alas! not one polluted Bard,
No, not the Strains that Mincius heard,
Or Tibur's Hills reply'd,
Dare
- ↑ Octavius Cæsar.
