[38]. Dr. Francis thus versifies this passage, in our language:—
————“What bounds old ocean’s tides;
What, through the various year, the seasons guides:
Whether the stars, by their own proper force,
Or foreign pow’r, pursue their wand’ring course:
Why shadows darken the pale Queen of Night;
Whence she renews her orb, and spreads her light.”[light.”]
[39]. Thus rendered, in English verse, by Mr. Dryden:—
“Ye sacred Muses, with whose beauty fir’d,
My soul is ravish’d, and my brain inspir’d;