This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 Excerpt: ... "no day shall shame "The rising glories which from this I claim, "Fortune may favour, or the skies may frown "But valour, spite of fate, obtains renown. "Yet, ere from hence our eager steps depart, "One boon I beg, the nearest to my heart: "My mother, sprung from Priam's royal line, "Like thine ennobled, hardly less ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 Excerpt: ... "no day shall shame "The rising glories which from this I claim, "Fortune may favour, or the skies may frown "But valour, spite of fate, obtains renown. "Yet, ere from hence our eager steps depart, "One boon I beg, the nearest to my heart: "My mother, sprung from Priam's royal line, "Like thine ennobled, hardly less divine, "Nor Troy, nor King Acestes' realms restrain "Her feeble age from dangers of the main; "Alone she came, all selfish fears above, "A bright example of maternal love. "Unknown the secret enterprize I brave, "Lest grief should bend my parent to the grave "From this alone, no fond adieus I seek, "No fainting mother's lips have press'd my cheek; "By gloomy night, and thy right hand I vow, "Her parting tears would shake my purpose now: "Do thou, my prince, her failing age sustain, "In thee her much loved child may live again; "Her dying hours, with pious conduct bless, "Assist her wants, relieve her fond distress: "So dear a hope must all my soul inflame, "To rise in glory, or to fall in fame." Struck with a filial care, so deeply felt, In tears, at once the Trojan warriors melt; Faster than all, lulus' eyes o'erflow, Such love was his, and such had been his woe, "All thou hast ask'd, receive," the Prince replied, "Nor this alone, but many a gift beside; "To cheer thy mother's years shall be my aim, "Creusa's style but wanting to the dame; The mother of lulus, lost on the night when Troy was taken. "Fortune an adverse wayward course may run, "But bless'd thy mother in so dear a son. "Now, by my life, my sire's most sacred oath, "To thee I pledge my full, my firmest troth, &qu...
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