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Thus while he linger'd, his Design was heard;
A speedy Process form'd, and Death declar'd.
Witness there needed none of his Offence;
Against himself the Wretch was Evidence:
Condemn'd, and destitute of human Aid,
To him, for whom he suffer'd, thus he pray'd.
O Pow'r, who hast deserv'd in Heav'n a Throne,
Not giv'n, but by thy Labours made thy own,
Pity thy Suppliant, and protect his Cause,
Whom thou hast made obnoxious to the Laws.
A Custom was of old, and still remains,
Which Life, or Death by Suffrages ordains:
White Stones, and Black within an Urn are cast;
The first absolve, but Fate is in the last.
The Judges to the common Urn bequeath
Their Votes, and drop the Sable Signs of Death;
The Box receives all Black, but, pour'd from thence,
The Stones came candid forth; the Hue of Innocence.
Thus Alemonides his Safety won,
Preserv'd from Death by Alcumena's Son:
Then to his Kinsman-God his Vows he pays,
And cuts with prosp'rous Gales th' Ionian Seas:
He leaves Tarentum, favour'd by the Wind,
And r/?//rme Bay's, andTemifes, behind j
Soft Sybaris, and all the Capes that stand
Along the Shore, he makes in sight of Land;
Still doubling, and still coasting, till he found
The Mouth of Æsaris, and promis'd Ground;
Then saw, where, on the Margin of the Flood,
The Tomb, that held the Bones of Croton stood:
Here, by the Gods Command, he built, and wall'd
The Place predicted; and Crotona call'd.
Thus Fame, from time to time, delivers down
The sure Tradition of th' Italian Town.
Here dwelt the Man divine, whom Samos bore,
But now Self-banish'd from his-Native Shore,

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