The long sought Isle of Ithacus the wise;
Where fair Penelope, of him deprived,
To guard her honour endless schemes contrived:
She, only shielded by her stripling son,
Her lord Ulysses long to Ilion gone,
Each bold attempt of suitor-kings repell’d,
And undefiled her nuptial contract held;
True to her vows, and resolutely chaste,
Met arts with art, and triumphed at the last.
Argos, in Greece forgotten and unknown,