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