. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . ORCHESTRA, or, A Poem of Here lives the man, that never yet did hearOf chaste Penelope, Ulyssess Queen ?Who kept her faith unspotted twenty year;Till he returned, that far away had been,And many men and many towns had seen :Ten years at Siege of Troy, he lingring lay;And ten years in the midland sea didstray. 2. Homer, to whom the Muses did carouseA great deep cup, with heavenly nectar filled;The greatest deepest cup in Joves great house(For Jove himself had so expressly willed) :He drank of all, ne let one drop be s
. An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . ORCHESTRA, or, A Poem of Here lives the man, that never yet did hearOf chaste Penelope, Ulyssess Queen ?Who kept her faith unspotted twenty year;Till he returned, that far away had been,And many men and many towns had seen :Ten years at Siege of Troy, he lingring lay;And ten years in the midland sea didstray. 2. Homer, to whom the Muses did carouseA great deep cup, with heavenly nectar filled;The greatest deepest cup in Joves great house(For Jove himself had so expressly willed) :He drank of all, ne let one drop be spilled ; Since when, his brain, that had before been dry,Became the Wellspring of all Poetry. 24 Orchestra, a Poem or Dancing. p7un^YJ94: 3- Homer doth tell, in his abundant long laborious travails of the Man ;And of his Lady too, he doth rehearse,How she eludes, with all the art she can,Thungrateful love, which other Lords began. For of her Lord, false Fame, long since, had swornThat Neptunks monsters had his carcass torn. 4. All this he tells. But one thing he forgot! One thing most wo
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