For, ſpringing thick in every field,

The earth does golden flowers ſpontaneous yield; ⁠155
And, in every limpid ſtream,
The budding gold is ſeen to gleam:

Fair heritage! by righteous Rhadamanth's award;
Who, coequal, takes his ſeat
With Saturn ſire divine, ⁠160
Thy conſort, Rhea, who above the reſt doſt ſhine,
High-thron'd, thou matron-goddeſs great:
Theſe among
(Bliſsful throng!)
Does Peleus and does Cadmus find regard; ⁠165
And, through his mother's winning prayer
To Jove, Achilles dwells immortal there:

He who Hector did deſtroy,
The pillar firm, the whole ſupport, of Troy,
And Cycnus gave to dy, ⁠170
And Aurora's Æthiop ſon.

My arm beneath yet many darts have I,