'T is that I may not weep; and if I weep,
'T is that our nature cannot always bring
Itself to apathy, for we must steep[DH]
Our hearts first in the depths of Lethe's spring,[DI]
Ere what we least wish to behold will sleep:
Thetis baptized her mortal son in Styx;
A mortal mother would on Lethe fix.
V.
Some have accused me of a strange design
Against the creed and morals of the land,