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urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.1	head	[Imitated] From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg: 1.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.2	p	To Maecenas
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.1	l	You ask why thus my loves I still rehearse,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.2	l	Whence the soft strain and ever-melting verse:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.3	l	From Cynthia all that in my numbers shines;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.4	l	She is my genius, she inspires the lines;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.5	l	No Phoebus else, no other muse I know;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.6	l	She tunes my easy rhyme and gives the lay to flow.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.7	l	If the loose curls around her forehead play,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.8	l	Or lawless o'er their ivory margin stray;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.9	l	If the thin Coan web her shape reveal,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.10	l	And half disclose those limbs it should conceal;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.11	l	Of those loose curls, that ivory front, I write,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.12	l	Of the dear web whole volumes I indite.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.13	l	Or if to music she the lyre awake,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.14	l	That the soft subject of my song I make,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.15	l	And sing with what a careless grace she flings
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.16	l	Her artful hand across the sounding strings.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.17	l	If sinking into sleep she seem to close
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.18	l	Her languid lids, I favour her repose
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.19	l	With lulling notes, and thousand beauties see
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.20	l	That slumber brings to aid my poetry.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.21	l	When less averse and yielding to desires,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.22	l	She half accepts and half rejects my fires;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.23	l	While to retain the envious lawn she tries,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.24	l	And struggles to elude my longing eyes;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.25	l	The fruitful muse from that auspicious night
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.26	l	Dates the long Iliad of the amorous fight.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.27	l	In brief, whate'er she do, or say, or look,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.28	l	'Tis ample matter for a lover's book;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.29	l	And many a copious narrative you'll see,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.3.30	l	Big with important nothing's history.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.1	l	Yet would the tyrant Love permit me raise
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.2	l	My feeble voice to sound the victor's praise,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.3	l	To paint the hero's toil, the ranks of war,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.4	l	The laurelled triumph and the sculptured car,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.5	l	No giant-race, no tumult of the skies,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.6	l	No mountain-structures in my verse should rise;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.7	l	Nor tale of Thebes or Ilium there should be,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.8	l	Or how the Persian trod the indignant sea;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.9	l	Not Marius' Cimbrian wreaths would I relate,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.10	l	Nor lofty Carthage struggling with her fate.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.11	l	Here should Augustus great in arms appear,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.12	l	And thou, Maecenas, be my second care;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.13	l	Here Mutina from flames and famine free,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.14	l	And there the ensanguined wave of Sicily,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.15	l	And sceptred Alexandria's captive shore,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.16	l	And sad Philippi red with Roman gore.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.17	l	Then, while the vaulted skies loud Ios rend,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.18	l	In golden chains should loaded monarchs bend,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.19	l	And hoary Nile with pensive aspect seem
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.20	l	To mourn the glories of his sevenfold stream,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.21	l	While prows, that late in fierce encounter met,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.22	l	Move through the sacred way and vainly threat.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.23	l	Thee too the muse should consecrate to fame,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.24	l	And with his garlands weave thy ever-faithful name;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.25	l	But nor Callimachus' enervate strain
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.26	l	May tell of Jove and Phlegra's blasted plain,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.27	l	Nor I with unaccustomed vigour trace
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.28	l	Back to its source divine the Julian race.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.29	l	Sailors to tell of winds and seas delight,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.30	l	The shepherd of his flocks, the soldier of the fight;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.31	l	A milder warfare I in verse display;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.32	l	Each in his proper art should waste the day.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.33	l	Nor thou my gentle calling disapprove:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.34	l	To die is glorious in the bed of love.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.35	l	Happy the youth, and not unknown to fame,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.36	l	Whose heart has never felt a second flame.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.37	l	Oh, might that envied happiness be mine!
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.38	l	To Cynthia all my wishes I confine;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.39	l	Or if, alas! it be my fate to try
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.40	l	Another love, the quicker let me die.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.41	l	But she, the mistress of my faithful breast,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.42	l	Has oft the charms of constancy confessed,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.43	l	Condemns her fickle sex's fond mistake,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.44	l	And hates the tale of Troy for Helen's sake.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.45	l	Me from myself the soft enchantress stole:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.46	l	Ah! let her ever my desires control.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.47	l	Or if I fall the victim of her scorn,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.48	l	From her loved door may my pale corse be borne.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.49	l	The power of herbs can other harms remove,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.50	l	And find a cure for every ill but love.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.51	l	The Melian's hurt Machaon could repair,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.52	l	Heal the slow chief and send again to war;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.53	l	To Chiron Phoenix owed his long-lost sight,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.54	l	And Phoebus' son recalled Androgeon to the light.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.55	l	Here arts are vain, even magic here must fail,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.56	l	The powerful mixture and the midnight spell.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.57	l	The hand that can my captive heart release
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.58	l	And to this bosom give its wonted peace,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.59	l	May the long thirst of Tantalus allay,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.60	l	Or drive the infernal vulture from his prey.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.61	l	For ills unseen what remedy is found,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.62	l	Or who can probe the undiscovered wound?
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.63	l	The bed avails not or the leech's care,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.64	l	Nor changing skies can hurt nor sultry air.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.65	l	'Tis hard the elusive symptoms to explore:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.66	l	Today the lover walks, tomorrow is no more;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.67	l	A train of mourning friends attend his pall,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.4.68	l	And wonder at the sudden funeral.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.5	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.5.1	l	When then my fates that breath they gave shall claim,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.5.2	l	When the short marble but preserves a name,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.5.3	l	A little verse, my all that shall remain,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.5.4	l	Thy passing courser's slackened speed retain
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.5.5	l	(Thou envied honour of thy poet's days,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.5.6	l	Of all our youth the ambition and the praise!);
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.5.7	l	Then to my quiet urn awhile draw near,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.5.8	l	And say, while o'er the place you drop a tear,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.5.9	l	Love and the fair were of his life the pride;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedFromPropertiusLib2Eleg1.English.1716_imp2:1.5.10	l	He lived while she was kind, and, when she frowned, he died.