[The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower]
[Went to the ground]; and [the repeated air]
[Of sad Electra’s poet] had the power
To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.
IX.
TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY.
Lady, that in the prime of earliest youth
[Wisely hast shunned the broad way] and the green,
And with those few art eminently seen
That labor up the hill of heavenly Truth,