None warmer sought the sires of human-kind. 390

Happy in temperate peace! Their equal days

Felt not th’ alternate fits of feverish mirth,

And sick dejection. Still serene and pleas’d,

They knew no pains but what the tender soul

With pleasure yields to, and would ne’er forget. 395

Blest with divine immunity from ails,

Long centuries they liv’d; their only fate

Was ripe old age, and rather sleep than death.

Oh! could those worthies from the world of Gods