With mouth-piece aptly fitted: and with worse

Than deadly hate and indignation warm'd,

Hermobius and Pherecles lash'd in verse.

VI.

Antimachus, for beauteous Lyda's love,

Hied him to rich Pactolus' golden tide:

But, well-a-day! his bliss stern Fate unwove;

Short was her doom,—in Pergamus she died,—

And in her grave was laid in prime of age.

He, full of lamentation, journey'd on