Those raptures duly—Erebus disdains:

Calm pleasures there abide—majestic pains.

"Be taught, O faithful Consort, to control

Rebellious passion: for the Gods approve

The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul;

A fervent, not ungovernable, love.[6]

Thy transports moderate; and meekly mourn

When I depart, for brief is my sojourn—"

"Ah, wherefore?—Did not Hercules by force

Wrest from the guardian Monster of the tomb