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urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.1	head	Imitated from Propertius, Lib: 3: Eleg: 5:
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urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.2.1	l	Love, gentle power, to peace was e'er a friend:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.2.2	l	Before the goddess' shrine we too, love's votaries, bend.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.2.3	l	Still may his bard in softer fights engage:
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.2.4	l	Wars hand to hand with Cynthia let me wage.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.1	l	Long as of youth the joyous hours remain,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.2	l	Me may Castalia's sweet recess detain,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.3	l	Fast by the umbrageous vale lulled to repose,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.4	l	Where Aganippe warbles as it flows;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.5	l	Or roused by sprightly sounds from out the trance,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.6	l	I'd in the ring knit hands and join the Muses' dance.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.7	l	Give me to send the laughing bowl around,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.8	l	My soul in Bacchus' pleasing fetters bound;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.9	l	Let on this head unfading flowers reside,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.10	l	There bloom the vernal rose's earliest pride;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.11	l	And when, our flames commissioned to destroy,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.12	l	Age step 'twixt love and me, and intercept our joy;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.13	l	When my changed head these locks no more shall know,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.14	l	And all its jetty honours turn to snow;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.15	l	Then let me rightly spell of nature's ways.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.16	l	To Providence, to him my thoughts I'd raise,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.17	l	Who taught this vast machine its steadfast laws,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.18	l	That first, eternal, universal Cause;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.19	l	Search to what regions yonder star retires,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.20	l	Who monthly waning hides her paly fires,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.21	l	And whence, anew revived, with silver light
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.22	l	Relumes her crescent orb to cheer the dreary night;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.23	l	How rising winds the face of ocean sweep;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.24	l	Where lie the eternal fountains of the deep;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.25	l	And whence the cloudy magazines maintain
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.26	l	Their wintry war or pour the autumnal rain;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.27	l	How flames perhaps, with dire confusion hurled,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.28	l	Shall sink this beauteous fabric of the world;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.29	l	What colours paint the vivid arch of Jove;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.30	l	What wondrous force the solid earth can move,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.31	l	When Pindus' self approaching ruin dreads,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.32	l	Shakes all his pines and bows his hundred heads;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.33	l	Why does yon orb, so exquisitely bright,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.34	l	Obscure his radiance in a short-lived night;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.35	l	Whence the Seven Sisters' congregated fires,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.36	l	And what Bootes' lazy wagon tires;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.37	l	How the rude surge its sandy bounds control;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.38	l	Who measured out the year and bade the seasons roll;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.39	l	If realms beneath those fabled torments know,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.40	l	Pangs without respite, fires that ever glow;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.41	l	Earth's monster-brood stretched on their iron bed;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.42	l	The hissing terrors round Alecto's head;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.43	l	Scarce to nine acres Tityus' bulk confined;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.44	l	The triple dog that scares the shadowy kind;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.45	l	All angry heaven inflicts or hell can feel,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.46	l	The pendent rock, Ixion's whirling wheel,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.47	l	Famine at feasts and thirst amid the stream.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.48	l	Or are our fears the enthusiast's empty dream,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.49	l	And all the scenes that hurt the grave's repose,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.3.50	l	But pictured horror and poetic woes?
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.4	lg	
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.4.1	l	These soft, inglorious joys my hours engage;
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.4.2	l	Be love my youth's pursuit and science crown my age.
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.4.3	l	You, whose young bosoms feel a nobler flame,
urn:cts:tgap:GrayThomas.ImitatedfromPropertiusLib3Eleg5.English.1716_imp3:1.4.4	l	Redeem what Crassus lost and vindicate his name.