Thus the Cyprian goddess weeping

Mourn'd Adonis, darling youth;

Him the boar, in silence creeping,

Gored with unrelenting tooth.

Cynthia, tune harmonious numbers,

Fair Discretion, string the lyre;

Soothe my ever-waking slumbers;

Bright Apollo, lend thy choir.

Gloomy Pluto, king of terrors,

Arm'd in adamantine chains,