[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,