Should make our blisses relish the more high?

Then all fair dames, and maidens, and true knights,

Whose flourish'd fortunes prosper in Love's eye,

Weep here, unto a tale of ancient grief,

Traced from the course of an old bas-relief.

III.

There stands Abydos!—here is Sestos' steep,

Hard by the gusty margin of the sea,

Where sprinkling waves continually do leap;

And that is where those famous lovers be,