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OVID's

METAMORPHOSES.


BOOK XI.


Translated by Mr. Dryden and Others.

The Death of Orpheus.

By Mr. Croxall.

HERE, while the Thracian Bard's enchanting Strain
Sooths Beasts, and Woods, and all the list'ning Plain,
The Female Bacchanals, devoutly mad,
In shaggy Skins, like savage Creatures clad,
Warbling in Air perceiv'd his lovely Lay,
And from a rising Ground beheld him play.
When one, the wildest, with dishevel'd Hair,
That loosely stream'd, and ruffled in the Air;

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