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For sure it did on earth this office bear,
And Hymen's pleasures were its nightly care;
Till envious winds with boist'rous fury rose:
But goddess! thou the mournful tale disclose;
At once from high the sacred torch was tost,
Its flame extinguish'd, and the lover lost.
Where Neptune stretcheth out an arm, to bound
Fair Europe's confines from the Asian ground,
A rising town on either shore commands
The distant sea, and aws the neighb'ring lands;
Here the Idalian boy his sport begun,
And with one dart a double conquest won:
To equal breasts an equal flame convey'd,
The lovely'st youth ador'd the lovely'st maid.
He sure must never have convers'd with fame,
Who knows not Hero and Leander's name:
Alike both glories of their native place;
Abydos one, and one did Sestos grace.