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Excerpt from The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Vol. 13: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations
How hath he then so deep incensed thee, Jove? To whom the cloud-assembler God replied.
What word hath pass'd thy lips, Daughter beloved? Can I forget Ulysses? Him forget So noble, who in wisdom all mankind Excels, and who hath sacrificed so oft To us whose dwelling is the boundless heaven? Earth-circling Neptune - He it is whose wrath Pursues him ceaseless for the Cyclops' sake Polypheme, strongest of the giant race, Whom of his eve Ulysses hath deprived. For Him, Thoosa bore, Nymph of the sea From Phorcys sprung, by Ocean's mighty power Impregnated in caverns Of the Deep. E'er since that day, the Shaker of the shores, Although he slay him not, yet devious drives Ulysses from his native isle afar. Yet come - in full assembly his return Contrive we now, both means and prosperous end; So Neptune shall his wrath remit, whose power In contest with the force of all the Gods Exerted single, can but strive in vain.
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