And with all passions in their turn attacked;

Now, if my Pegasus should not be shod ill,

This poem will become a moral model.

III.

The European with the Asian shore

Sprinkled with palaces—the Ocean stream[271]

Here and there studded with a seventy-four,

Sophia's Cupola with golden gleam,[272]

The cypress groves, Olympus high and hoar,

The twelve isles, and the more than I could dream,