Now here now there thy burning eyes? And why
Dost thou so falsely see the heavens?
Hercules: Now is the whole round earth at last subdued;955
The swollen seas give place, and e'en the realms
Infernal have our toils heroic known.
The heavens alone remain untried, a task
Well worth the struggles of a Hercules.
Now shall I soar aloft to those far heights,
And seek the heavenly spaces; for a star
Has Jupiter, my father, promised me.