Whose limbs unburied on the [naked] shore,

Devouring dogs and [hungry] vultures tore—

Now turn from the Iliad to the Rape of the Lock:—

And now [unveiled] the toilet stands displayed,

Each silver vase in [mystic] order laid.

A [heavenly] image in the glass appears,

To that she bends, [to that] her eyes she rears;

The [inferior] priestess at her altar’s side,

[Trembling] begins the sacred rights of pride.

Unnumbered treasures ope [at once], and here